The deep seated angst of hoping and begging for peace and resolution- was relieved on the day which I received notice, by a lady whom…
Author: Magda Gee
I am in a program of recovery for those whose lives have been affected by someone else's drinking, drug use, mental illness. I am newly learning faith, hope, and courage, practices not witnessed by me, in my childhood, with my family. Sadly, No Contact, as a last resort, is how I keep safe from diminishing words and actions directed at me. I think I have listened for the last time to how I deserve mistreatment. By holding out for something more wholesome and loving, I have been both banished and demanded to return. I prefer serenity to proximity. I will continue with my program and faith in the best possible outcome, so long as I do my part-- to stalk GOD as if my life depends on it.
To be introverted means that I prefer solitude and derive energy from quiet time, alone. I don’t completely hate socializing, but it is often too…
“You are either in agreement with (like) us or against us.” That mentality is the ancestral curse and cycle which I strive to crush, one…
My grandmother visited my childhood home a few times a year and I alllllwaaaays looked forward to her arrival. She was radiant, popular, and very…
Though I am intimately familiar with the energy and attitudes which I have always identified in the “serves you right- types”, I have only just…
Because I was raised without healthy sustained connection with my care givers, I attempted to build an identity around attachments and affiliations- which would not ever…
In relationships, if it is conditional, it is not kind. I can think of nothing more confused and distorted than my early ideas about kindness…
Oh, Like a lightning bolt- it struck me, again. How much, extremists of any sort can not “tolerate” peaceful protest or resistance. To them– to…
Seems as if stonewalling and gaslighting are techniques intended to erase a person, to obliterate their spirit. Stonewalling is a tactic used by bullies to…
In their young efforts to address my George Floyd despair, my boys offered me this: “Mom, he did have meth in his system and had…