Today marks the date of my mother’s birth and the continuing birthday – holiday season. I have been reflecting on my mother’s financially heroic rescue…
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.
As for more more more, apparently that is exactly what a love bomber wants you to want and count on. I hate to use that…
If you were blessed in any of the following ways, in your upbringing and formative experience, you were privileged. Felt loved, seen, heard, safe, welcomed,…
For the past months, intractable insomnia has drastically diminished my ability to function. Circling the drain is the best I can do. My therapist encouraged…
Several things occurred last week to escalate my despair. And the thing which hurt the most, was the secondary feeling. You see, any time, I…
What if I had grown up with even one single person who saw me, heard me, was kind and compassionate and DECIDED that I was…
Month after month of: Serenity + Flow- easy and magical flow- we were convinced this has not been done before, that we invented this way…
I have been struggling to share about the untraditional nature of my relationship, which is by far the only profoundly satisfying one I have known…
There’s so much to unpack from the last few months. I was sick for an unusually long 17 days with something that wasn’t the flu…
One Monday morning in January, after the boys finally returned to school, I headed to the gym under blue skies and sunny mid-50s, with almost…