A lyrical meditation on relapse, reflection, and the quiet resilience of coming back to oneself.

In this emotionally raw and poetic collection, four essays trace the invisible descent before relapse, the mental tug-of-war that precedes it, the moment it arrives, and the redemptive choice to rise again. Through evocative chapters like The Quiet Cracks, The Bargain Table, The Wound That Echoes, and Ashes and Anchors, this book explores the spaces we revisit when healing falters ? not as failures, but as familiar rooms we learn to navigate with deeper understanding. For anyone who's ever stood at the edge of themselves and wondered if return was possible, this is a quiet reminder: the door is still open.