Our Approach to Recovery Stories

Recovery content can help a person feel less alone. It can also become careless when pain is used for attention, when one person’s experience is presented as universal, or when a product is placed where support should be.

Our editorial and commercial rules are designed to keep those boundaries visible.

Our two public story labels

Fictionalized Story

This is our default format for work informed by real-world themes or authorized source material but substantially transformed. Names, dates, places, relationships, occupations, timelines, dialogue, and identifying combinations must be changed. It is not presented as one person’s factual account.

Fiction

This label is used when the characters and events are entirely invented. The Date She Kept is Fiction: an original serial work, not a customer account.

Privacy means more than changing a name

If a reasonable person connected to the source could still identify the individual, the draft must be transformed further or not published. Fictionalization does not replace consent, rights review, or privacy review when source material comes from a specific person.

Products do not enter the scene

We do not place products inside a vulnerable moment simply to create a sales opportunity. If a relevant gift or milestone page appears, it belongs after the story, visually separated from the editorial work.

What we do not publish

• Direct customer recovery accounts presented as testimonials or factual case studies.
• Identifying accusations, private medical information, or material the contributor does not have the right to share.
• Instructions for unsafe substance use, self-harm, evading care, or unsupervised detox.
• Treatment guarantees, undisclosed endorsements, or invented partnerships.

Support resources

Coin With Meaning is not a crisis service or treatment provider. U.S. readers can find treatment information through FindTreatment.gov or SAMHSA’s National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357). If you are in crisis, call or text 988 in the United States. For immediate danger, contact local emergency services. Visitors outside the United States should use appropriate local services.