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GLOBAL RELEASE — January 27, 2026 — As a landmark social media trial begins in California, centering on a 19-year-old who alleges TikTok and other platforms contributed to depression and self-harm through addictive design, A Walk in Recovery is focusing on a question courts can’t answer: What do you do when you suspect you have a problem but don’t see yourself as “an addict”?
The trial raises urgent questions about corporate responsibility and regulation. While those questions matter, A Walk in Recovery is focused on the human reality that plays out long before any lawsuit: people experience addiction as a confusing, private struggle—not a legal one.
By the time public debate begins, many individuals have already been quietly crossing their own lines, unsure whether their behavior is serious enough to require help. Whether it’s a bottle, a prescription, or a phone screen, the question underneath is often the same: is this still serving me, or am I serving it?”
“People don’t always see themselves in the word ‘addict,’ especially when everyone around them is ‘just scrolling’ or ‘just having a drink,’" says Kaylee A., founder of A Walk in Recovery and author of Addicted? Start Here. “This book exists for that in-between space—before crisis, before ruin, before denial hardens.”
Released January 7, 2026, Addicted? Start Here is a practical, plain-language guide for people quietly questioning addictive patterns. It offers 35+ powerful visuals to bring clarity and support to recovery—because sometimes, seeing it changes everything.
• Title: Addicted? Start Here
• Tagline: A simple useful tool to recover from addiction.
• Dedication: “I’m an addict. Could you be one too?”
• Publication Date: January 7, 2026
• Format: Paperback, eBook
• Publisher: A Walk in Recovery
• ISBN: 978-1-0699692-0-0 (paperback), 978-1-0699692-1-7 (ebook)
• Available at: Amazon
Kaylee A. is a recovery writer and sponsor with nearly a decade in a Twelve Step program. Ten years ago, she attempted Dry January and couldn’t get through it. That failure became the beginning of countless attempts to quit—drawing new lines, crossing them, and watching alcohol quietly hijack her life.
She knows what it feels like to be scared, confused, and alone—wanting to stop, but unable to. Those experiences, combined with years in 12 Step rooms, being a single parent, and navigating high-pressure work and burnout, led her back to the core tools that saved her life. Addicted? Start Here distills those tools into simple suggestions, visuals, and steps, offering others the wisdom she wished she had at the beginning.
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Kaylee A., A Walk in Recovery
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