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…
Month: November 2019
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,…
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. …
Things that once caused me shame: My thin awkward body and brownish (non-white) skin My name–the one assigned to me at birth My inability to…
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…
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…