Recovery Stories

Starting college is supposed to feel like freedom. For Sofia, it feels like survival. Fresh out of the hospital and stepping onto campus weeks after the semester has already begun, she is forced to navigate dorm life, lectures, and relationships while carrying the weight of a past she's not ready to talk about. As she tries to rebuild a sense of normalcy, she forms unexpected connections, including her outgoing roommate Alison and Joshua, a football player whose quiet steadiness contrasts sharply with the chaos inside her head. Set against the backdrop of college life, this story explores eating disorders, relapse, control and the fragile balance between isolation and connection.

He didn't break her all at once. He taught her how to shatter herself. To everyone watching, she has the life girls dream of : money, beauty, a powerful husband, and a marriage wrapped in perfection. But behind their locked doors, perfection is the punishment she can never escape. He tells her who to be. He tells her how to walk, how to breathe, how to think. Every mistake is a lesson. Every bruise is a reminder. Every betrayal is somehow her fault. And she believes him. Because after years of being molded, corrected, and rewritten, she no longer remembers who she was before he decided to "fix" her. She only knows the rules he carved into her bones. Don't speak too loudly. Don't ask questions. Don't look at him when he's angry. Don't look away when he wants your attention. And above all Don't ever forget that love is earned, not given. Her sister whispers that she's losing herself. Her friends say they're worried. Her subconscious screams that something is wrong. But she silences all of them. Because she is so close so close to becoming the perfect wife, he swears she could be if she tries a little harder. And if she can be perfect... Maybe he'll finally love her. Or maybe perfection is the very thing that will destroy her. *This story depicts domestic and emotional abuse. These scenes are fictional and not meant to glorify or romanticize abuse. If you are in a harmful or unsafe situation, please reach out for help: 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE) thehotline.org You deserve safety.

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION Everest is the most popular boy in school. He's handsome, wealthy, and captain of the football team-he has the world at his fingertips, but he's desperately unhappy. And when those feelings become too much to bear, he tries to take his own life. On the surface, Beverly's different from Everest in every possible way. She's quiet, shy, hard working, and keeps to herself on campus, focusing on her schoolwork and her part-time job, distracting herself from her less-than-perfect upbringing. When Everest returns to school after his attempt, he's in more pain than ever. Discarded by his friends, he draws little empathy and too much attention from those who surround him. But when Beverly and Everest meet unexpectedly in a dusty corner of the old library, they discover together just how rich life can be when given the freedom to just be yourself.

Hey, guys. I just wanted to share this story to be more public about it- writing about struggles personally makes me feel better sometimes.

[sequel to RWBY: The Ace in the hole] Beacon has fallen and tensions are high between the kingdoms of Remnant. Rusty Calavera seeks vengeance on Adam Taurus and hopes to recover what was stolen from him, taking him to the far off island of Menagerie....... [Volumes 4-6] "There is no love without sin. Love is best measured in what we forgive." - Nightcrawler.

Taylor's little sister, Elizabeth, is struggling with an eating disorder. Lizzie is 15 years old and Taylor is desperate to help her. Trigger warning: this story will contain topics related to eating disorders, depression, self harm, anxiety and mental health. However, I will try to avoid mentioning numbers related to weight or calories. This is actually based on my story, but of course there's fiction too. It's my first time writing for other people to read, so any comment/advice is more than welcomed.

I don't want to do this. *this story is part of a series Series titles: Saving Laurel Becoming Brett Chasing Ellie Losing Sawyer Get ready for my awful description: Savannah and Sawyer hang out, things happen.

After losing the only boy she has ever loved, Jackie must find a way out of the spider web of grief and memory, and hold to the delicate hope of moving forward. ***** Jackie never pictured raising her daughter without Andy by her side. He was supposed to be the finish line, the one she'd always come back to, but the universe always finds a way of turning your life upside down. After a devastating accident takes him away, Jackie is left grasping for a lifeline, trapped in a world filled with memories she can't recover. Leaving home seems like the only choice, but distance can't make the memories disappear or calm the ache of every 'what if'. It doesn't make the pain go away. But love doesn't end with goodbye, or with death. It just changes shape. ***** BENNINGTON COLLEGE #1.5 © 2025 caterina george // all rights reserved

Based on a true story. A novel about the first person to step into these doors, the man who loved her, and the woman who protected her. The Saint Anthony House was supposed to be a bed and breakfast. It turned into a refuge stitched together by one woman's stubborn belief that broken things can be mended. Through the intertwined perspectives of Grazia, a young woman clawing her way back to herself; Anatoly, the man who has loved her since before either of them knew what love meant; and Caterina, the fierce, tender founder who shelters them both, this story becomes a love letter to the quiet sanctuaries that change us. As Grazia recovers within its walls, Anatoly stumbles into the House as a temporary worker and finds himself drawn into its strange gravity...and back toward the girl he's never stopped caring for. Under Caterina's watchful, maternal presence, the two of them rediscover each other in the soft light of the place. The Saint Anthony House is a story about second chances, chosen family, and the way a single place can hold the weight of three lives until they're strong enough to hold themselves.

Katelyn Elena Joy Allen Caldwell - but you can call her Katie - is eighteen years old and writing her story from inside a psychiatric hospital. What begins as a memoir unfolds into a raw, unfiltered account of growing up in abuse, surviving foster care, being adopted, and battling an eating disorder that she names Ana - the voice that both comforts and destroys her.

~ Darling, you left. All my revengeful thoughts. Text Copyright © RosesForBlues ™ 2026 rosesforblues@gmail.com

Eliana Morelli and her sister Sofia Morelli grew up protecting each other from their toxic mafia household that made them compete. Eliana is an alcoholic who is always the headline of every magazine. Whereas Sofia is considered a princess set to marry younger brother of the Russo empire Daniel Russo. She detest arranged marriages and finds herself at a club the night of her sister's wedding. Drunk she finds herself dancing with an attractive older man and wakes up in his apartment with him gone. Late to the wedding she finds herself mid aisle stopped to see Xavier Russo. Daniel Russo's older brother. The man she kissed last night.

{SEQUEL TO ACROPHILIA} After waking up from the coma, Jinyoung cannot seem to get rid of this other man who seems set on turning his life upside down, making him want to... live.

She always wants what she's not allowed to have, and she always gets it. Addy's getting bored with the status quo. At school, she's a popular golden girl with a drop-dead gorgeous boyfriend. At home, she's an anorexic in quasi-recovery, struggling to push her feelings below the surface. On top of all that, she now has to deal with her boyfriend's cousin, Max, who has dedicated his time to annoying her, and who also happens to be very easy on the eyes. When Max begins to realise that Addy needs help, the lines between them are blurred. He drives Addy crazy in every way possible, and soon she's addicted to his touch and the fire she sees in his eyes. But Addy has sacrificed so much for control, including her relationship. If she keeps going with Max, she could lose it.

Sonic died protecting Tails. He woke up as something else A glitch. An EXE. A shadow of who he used to be. With no memories of himself-only the names of the friends he once love-Sonic Glitch.EXE fights beside them,believing they are the key to restoring what he lost. But when the origin of all EXEs,SonicLord.EXE ,appears,Sonic is forced to faced a horrifying truth: His friends have died countless times across alternate univeses. Broken by visions of their deaths,Sonic must choose- become a god's obedient weapon... Or reclaim his identity as the Original Sonic,the one who keeps the universe in balance. A story of loss,memory,determination, and rebirth.

Thot of thoughts: A nonviolence manifesto from one Georgia trans girls life long struggle with recovery to transition. I have been thinking a lot lately. More in an ai chat. Literally dealing with the world itself as I try to get to where I can write. Dealing with mental illness. Literally transitioning in this political climate. Might make a good autobiography One day. The following is a journal of my last years. Literally plan to thrive. Editing passes to come. This is meant to be an historical document from an critical voice. Yes me. A trans girl in the middle of societal scapegoating and possibly societal collapse. It is important to learn from the past. So learning from by while making something to be learned from. This is why I am posting it. Its apart of an omnibus. Planed by me. This is an infinite evolving project. Lets us see where it goes.

Two childhood friends, now grown up and with life in a mess, make two separate new year's resolution that makes them a permanent fixture in each other's life. Lan Wangji is a divorcee whose wife left him calling him emotionally unavailable and impotent. Wangji's older brother Lan Xichen is married with a child and his uncle Lan Qiren decides to marry Qiren's childhood sweetheart after her husband passed away of old age. Lan Wangji realizes he has nothing to look forward to in his old age. He resolves to live each day to the fullest to have memories to reminisce when he is older. Wei Wuxian, a workaholic, alcoholic and a habitual flirt is still recovering from the death of his older sister in a car accident ten years ago. Wuxian was driving drunk. Wei Wuxian makes a new year's resolution to give up alcohol and get in shape and have a serious relationship. Both men end up meeting at the fruit stall where it is Lan Wangji who recognizes Wei Ying as the boy from sixth grade who used to really annoy Wangji. As Wangji talks about his new year resolution to make new memories Wei Wuxian explains how he's trying to give up alcohol, that too without rehab, Lan Wangji offers to be Wuxian's accountability partner and the best way to be accountable is to live together.

Nellie goes on a camping trip with her dad as he struggles to cope with recent events.

"The ones who feel light. They are the ones who make you shine brighter." - susanb ~ In which Virine Naidu, a sweet and lively girl diminished by loss, bumps into Sirius Black, renowned Gryffindor player who is hiding a loss of his own. They were barely acquaintances before, but they soon find themselves filling the time with the other right beside them. In spite of, but also because of their shared darkness, they form a bond. But will that be enough, in the dark times that are coming? ~ This is a story of a girl and a boy. But also of their friends. Their found family, if you will.

Ranch Life Novel | Cedar Hollow Series Nineteen-year-old Lance Hawthorne grew up knowing exactly who he was meant to be-the next farrier in his family, working the forge beside his father and keeping the ranch running. But one rainy morning, a freak barn accident leaves him paralyzed from the waist down, shattering the future he spent years preparing for. Now the Hawthorne family is struggling to stay afloat, the business is slipping out of reach, and Lance is drowning in anger, guilt, and the fear that he's become a burden. Everyone walks on eggshells around him-except Blu Mercer, the new physical therapy assistant assigned to his rehab. Quiet, observant, and steady, Blu doesn't treat Lance like he's fragile. He doesn't push too hard or step away. He simply shows up-again and again-meeting Lance where he is, not where anyone thinks he should be. As Lance battles trauma, family expectations, and the loss of the only future he ever planned, he discovers that healing isn't about going back to who he was... it's about learning who he can become now. A story of identity, family, resilience, and the unexpected people who help us stand tall when we can't stand at all.