Recovery Stories
Recovery stories can help visitors feel less alone. This page gathers story-led reading, chapter navigation, and reflective pieces so readers can move through the archive without landing on an oversized blog layout.
Start with the serial guide
The Date She Kept: Season 1 Chapter Guide
Follow the full 12-chapter reading order, see which chapter is newest, and continue the story in order.
Latest chapter
Chapter 5: The Weight in Her Hand
At the end of a plain folding-chair meeting, Mara receives her first coin and discovers what its weight can mean.
Read by chapter
- The Date She Kept: Season 1 Chapter Guide
- Chapter 1: An Ordinary Square
- Chapter 2: Counting Without a Clock
- Chapter 3: What June Did Not Say
- Chapter 4: The Longest Evening
- Chapter 5: The Weight in Her Hand
Series and story reading
- The Date She Kept: Season 1 Chapter Guide
- Chapter 5: The Weight in Her Hand
- Chapter 4: The Longest Evening
- One Year Sober Stories: What 365 Days Can Mean
- The Moment That Made Me Choose Sobriety
- Chapter 3: What June Did Not Say
- Chapter 2: Counting Without a Clock
- Chapter 1: An Ordinary Square
Stories, reflections, and practical guides are different paths
Recovery Stories is the story-led path, including clearly labeled fiction and narrative work. For timely writing that begins with a current event, public conversation, film, culture, or public figure and then explores a recovery theme, visit Recovery Reflections. For practical evergreen answers, use Sobriety Guides.
This separation keeps readers oriented: a story can create recognition, a reflection can open a conversation, and a guide can answer the practical question that comes next.
How to browse
Start with the chapter guide if you want to follow the fictional series in order. Start with the latest chapter if you want to see the most recent update first. Start with the one-year stories if you want a single reflective read that feels more like a complete feature.
Visitors looking for time-based recognition can continue to Check Your Milestone. Readers who prefer faith-centered reflection can browse Faith & Recovery.