Recovery Has
a Voice.

I've spent more than twenty years in this field. I've owned programs, turned around programs, built programs from scratch, and lost programs I loved. I've been on the executive side of treatment, the clinical side, the business side. I've been a patient. I've been a family member watching someone I loved fight for their life.

What I haven't seen enough of is a media home for this community. Not a clinical journal. Not an AA pamphlet. Not a marketing piece dressed up as content. Something real. Something that meets people where they actually are — in the middle of the mess, or in the middle of the miracle, or somewhere in between.

That's what The Art of Recovery is.

I'm going to be honest with you from the very first issue, because this community deserves honesty: my recovery isn't perfect. It never has been. I've had over twenty years of fighting this thing. Some of those years were remarkable. Some were devastating. I've lost people I loved to this disease — including my brother Roah, who we honor in this issue's dedication. I've watched friends and colleagues lose their battles too.

But I've also watched people rebuild their lives from nothing. I've watched families come back together. I've watched people who everyone had written off walk out of treatment and build something extraordinary. That's the other side of this story, and it doesn't get told enough.

This magazine is for all of it. The struggle and the triumph. The relapse and the comeback. The science and the soul. The people who are ten days sober and the people who are ten years sober and everyone in between.

We start with many extraordinary contributors who have lived and worked in this space. We'll build this community together. And we'll tell the truth — because that's the only currency that matters here.

Welcome to Issue One.