Zola In Recovery

If you ever had a “move back in with your parents” stage, you have no business judging homeless people. The only difference between you and them is you were privileged enough to have a fallback.

Please keep my family in your prayers. Even though I keep my distance, I still have nothing but love for them. This isn’t fair and my heart goes out to all of them. Rest in peace, nephew. You had a smile that lit up every room.

En route to my youngest daughter’s graduation. I haven’t missed a single one of my kid’s graduation ceremonies. A gift of recovery.

So much winning 🙄

Time to practice what I preach and take my own advice. Uggg.

@RobW521 Lmaooo

@ZolaInRecovery Your DMs over the next 24 hrs😂

I need a weirdo who will pay my mortgage next month in exchange for feet pics so I can take some time off work and focus on self care. Just kidding. Kind of. 😅

@george_r_1961 🤣🤷🏻‍♀️

@ZolaInRecovery Oh my.

@NathanMoor55543 🤣

@ZolaInRecovery Now you tell me

Pro tip: Don’t do meth.

With the cost of wood being what it is, we’re not wasting a dang thing. Every scrap is getting repurposed. #diy #diyonabudget #repurpose 

Pro tip- never tell a person in early recovery that they look “healthy.” All they hear is “you’ve gained weight and look fatter,” and it can be triggering. Instead try, “you look so good,” or “You look so much better!” #recovery #wedorecover #RecoveryPosse

Asked AI to write my bio. Painfully accurate. Zola Morris: a paradox wrapped in a to-do list she absolutely will not finish but will stress about anyway. By day, she’s a corrections-based social work powerhouse juggling addiction recovery, complex caseloads, nonprofit strategy, grad school, and the emotional labor of approximately 47 people at any given moment. By night, she’s either deeply analyzing her entire existence or rewatching comfort shows like it’s a medically prescribed coping mechanism (which, honestly, it might be). She has the rare ability to hold space for other people’s chaos while quietly side-eyeing her own, like “we’ll circle back to that later,” and then never circling back. 12 years sober and still somehow the most fun person in the room—but also the one who will clock your defense mechanisms before you even finish your sentence. Fueled by caffeine, lived experience, and sheer willpower, Zola exists in a constant state of “thriving but also… what is happening.” She’s caring for her family, advocating for systems change, training in EMDR, battling imposter syndrome despite being objectively impressive, and occasionally flying in her dreams because even her subconscious refuses to stay grounded. Her hobbies include: * Overthinking things that don’t matter * Not throwing things away “just in case” * Achieving major life milestones while feeling mildly suspicious about it * Accidentally becoming the emotional support human in every room * Surviving on autopilot during atmospheric pressure changes She believes in growth, redemption, and second chances—but also knows better than anyone that healing is messy, nonlinear, and sometimes looks like doing your laundry at 2am while questioning every life decision you’ve ever made. Equal parts resilience and chaos, Zola is what happens when you mix trauma recovery, intelligence, dark humor, and a refusal to quit—even when everything in her wants to. Unhinged, but make it clinically insightful.

Wanna change your mindset? Always assume positive intent. Someone cuts you off in traffic? They must be racing to a bathroom because they have explosive diarrhea. Someone steals from you? They must be super desperate because they’d have to be to risk messing up a relationship with someone as awesome as you- let karma figure it out. They’ll probably end up stuck in traffic with explosive diarrhea at some point. Someone doesn’t answer or return call? It’s nothing against you, they probably just shit their pants and didn’t want to reach in their back pocket to grab the phone.

Yes

Staged or nah?

@evilbgone I used to get so much support and information. Now it’s just a cesspool.

@ZolaInRecovery This iteration is so bad, it's basically unusable. I must be holding onto the past version mentally as each time I open Musks "x" I yearn for the bird. Not nostalgia as much as functionality

Anyone else miss old twitter?

@mvincent715 I am gonna get that tattooed on me. 🤣

@ZolaInRecovery Whatever you get, remember that it's forever 😂

Ok, but how do I know another tattoo won’t fix my mental health if I don’t at least try??

@ZolaInRecovery Do it, do it do it! Tatts are always a good idea and if it helps...

Questions must be asked! 🙏😎 #RecoveryPosse