Eggshells are Easily Broken
My relationships before recovery were so distrusting and volatile, and could literally snap under the weight of even the slightest tension. It was not safe or accepted to openly experience difficult…
My relationships before recovery were so distrusting and volatile, and could literally snap under the weight of even the slightest tension. It was not safe or accepted to openly experience difficult…
Even, through my thirties, I had not learned to appropriately respond to harmful behaviors and words. Consistently, my uninformed and humiliating reactions stole the show, contributing greatly to the wreckage…
Thanks for letting me go. Nearly 5 decades chasing or running from you--was no way to live and no longer how I understand and do love. Recovery teaches us--- Love is…
Things that once caused me shame: My thin awkward body and brownish (non-white) skinMy name--the one assigned to me at birthMy inability to calm down and focus on what matters…
From Liz Earnshaw (Click anywhere on this post to read more from her): There is a phenomenon in families known as homeostasis (really, in any group of people , but…
I did not comprehend or grasp anything close to sane thinking before entering into my program of recovery. After my first Al-Anon meeting, I attended every single 12 step program…