Surprisingly, it was a very good day. I forced myself to go sweat it out in the yard, pruning, mowing, weeding. I always feel…
The more I try to outrun (debating whether lying on the couch or in my bed is considered outrunning) the pain, the less I am…
I don’t recall much of life before children, only that I was miserable and treated myself poorly because that is all I knew …that I…
In the past year, I have noted consistently how my low blood sugar either triggers or mimics anxiety for me. I feel ill much of…
How I wished I would have been a nice kid. Kindness and humility were neither natural nor modeled for me. I was scared shitless, constantly–with…
I don’t really get it. How is it ever better for relationships and trust, to rely on indirect communication for genuine understanding of needs, wants,…
Because we have recovery in our home, we get to practice clarifying, for ourselves and each other, the difference between unpleasant facts and problems. Before…
It is horrifying to look back over my life and to reflect on the countless times in which I felt either so indisputably right OR…
Why is the requirement to behave with loyalty towards his brother deeply offensive to my younger son? He enjoys his firm command over an arsenal of…
6:45 a.m.- It doesn’t even mater why… I woke to crushing anxiety this morning, as I do most, overwhelming, free-floating anxiety tied to nothing in…