For ten years, I existed in a life of severe addiction. My days were thread tightly into one another, blending into a blanket that heavily covered me. Removed from the world around me and from myself, I began to find comfort in scarce moments of escape. These moments slowly cut the threads that covered me and offered me the ability to confront and uncover my truest self. By examining myself in these moments, my desperation to disconnect transformed into a desperation to understand how to exist. Each experience spent immersed in nature slowly began to thread together a new path that led to finding peace within myself and healing. I began to mend myself, until the blanket on top of me disappeared completely