The Art of Starting Over

They say rock bottom has a basement - but no one ever tells you what it feels like to wake up there.

The Art of Starting Over follows a young man who's been burning alive for years and finally decides to walk through the fire instead of letting it eat him whole. On July 25th, after a night of drugs, sex, and desperation, he steps into an Uber bound for a rehab center in Homestead, Florida - still high, still trembling, still half in love with the boy he's leaving behind.

This story is a raw, intimate dive into addiction, trauma, survival, and the brutal beauty of choosing to stay alive. It's about the 90-day plan he never really believed in, the ghosts he carries from childhood, the loves that almost saved him, the substances that almost killed him, and the fragile hope that maybe, this time, starting over won't end in ruin.

Told with poetic darkness, unfiltered honesty, and the fever-dream language of someone learning to breathe again, The Art of Starting Over is not a redemption arc - it's a resurrection.

Trigger warnings: addiction, sexual content, trauma, abuse, self-harm, drug use, recovery, mental health.