Deny, defend, deflect, dilute. I think it is natural to do these things when we are young and full of not knowing how to act…
Last week, when we were notified of Ecoli in our water, our local schools and restaurants closed for 2 days and residents were under a…
If the opportunity to exchange goodbyes with my mother had been possible… I would have wept, thanked, apologized, forgiven–even if she remained silent and unreceptive.…
Altruistic Donor is the term for a living donor who chooses to part with an organ for an unknown and unspecified recipient. Totally fascinated by…
While Sweet Greg and I were out for his birthday lunch last Saturday, I went to the restroom to wash my hands and saw a…
I once did pretty much all of the same shit I now will not tolerate. In recovery, I am unlearning and growing, not pretending as…
Emotionally stunted people fail to learn to accept, process, or even tolerate a full range of emotion, leaving them emotionally primitive—limited only to recognizing pleasure…
Because Sweet Greg did not flinch, pout, or punish me for declaring myself absolutely physically and emotionally unavailable for the weekend, I feel beyond humbled…
I struggled mightily, since my earliest days. My formative experience strongly suggested my defectiveness as the cause, willfully imposing, as only an asshole would, on those…
I never tire of this reading and continue hoping that it may become a more common practice– reaching for The Third Way– in times of…