I was raised by people who did not believe in apologies or examining of their behaviors, deeply rooted in a sense of perpetual rightness. Why…
Squeee! I have completed my application for admission to a graduate course of study in Applied Ethics. I am interested in the path and the…
I have been hungering, starving for a way to explore THIS, outside of my limiting perspective/ personal experience and SO—am now contemplating graduate school for…
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…
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…
I am beyond excited for my upcoming and long awaited appointment to finish my back-piece tattoo, a sprawling octopus which we began more than a…