Don't Forget to Breathe

Don't Forget to Breathe

My perilous flight into recovery

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Derek Pashupa Goodwin
May 26, 2025
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In Greek mythology there is a creature known as the Hydra, who grows two heads whenever one is cut off. Addiction is like that.

NOTE: I thumb typed this post on a flight home from Boston a couple weeks ago, and when I turned airplane mode off it vanished. It wasn’t in my drafts when I checked my laptop. I let it go.

Today I went to create a new note on my…

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