In my family of origin and later my marriage, if there was a sure way to create tension, I did so effortlessly, though not deliberately,…
“Mom, have you ever felt suicidal?”, asked my son. I admitted: “Yeh, but mostly only on special occasions when I was tethered to people who…
I may spend all of my days seeking a way to forgive and emotionally release one who knowingly chooses to do harmful things to those…
Unrelated things which I have thought or heard over the past five weeks: Sometimes we need to explain or discuss things in order to gain…
As a child and young adult I had not known that I possessed any agency over the trajectory of my life. It seemed pre-determined. In the place…
We recently survived a tragic and highly traumatic event, with our most precious, best girl, an Albino Boa, named Goldie. My older son adored and cared…
As part of my practice of recovery, I do take daily personal inventory and sadly, I am not so recovered that I resist also taking…
Nothing good is born out of shame. Ever. And it does not resolve itself over time. If we don’t intentionally work to heal it, shame makes us…
From Strengthening My Recovery p13- January 12 Trait One “We became isolated and afraid of people and authority figures.” Big Red Book p.10 So many…
This is my 11th day since receiving my daily reader. Below is the daily reading for January 11, titled False Self: Many of us couldn’t be…