09/12/2025
December is a beautiful season but it can also reveal struggles that often stay hidden behind the celebrations.
There’s a difference between festive drinking and dependency:
🎄 Celebration looks like: occasional use, staying in control, and stopping when enough is enough.
⚠️ Addiction looks like: lack of control or chaos, drinking or using to cope, hiding it, mood swings, blackouts, broken promises to stop, or feeling unable to get through the day without it.
This festive season, let’s open our eyes with compassion.
If drinking or using no longer feels like joy, but a need… if a loved one is withdrawing, missing events, or “not themselves” anymore—those may be signs worth paying attention to.
Not everyone is celebrating easily this December.
For many, this month brings pressure, cravings, loneliness, and silent battles.
So we hold space for anyone struggling, and we remind you ,you’re not alone, and support exists.
There’s hope in RECOVERY!