I have definitely lost touch with my higher power, indicated by my obsessive and anxious rehearsing and rehashing, the afterburn of having stood up for myself. Today, I must journal…
So- In my desire and pursuit to be merciful, I foolishly agreed to a highly undesirable arrangement for myself. I did so, in an effort to be of service to my…
Just thrilled to have found and reposted this meme on instagram, if only----for one commentor's response: “Each time I try to appear normal, or pick up their energy thinking it’s…
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 change when you are already…
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 journey, without a destination or…
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 a MA in Applied Ethics. Putting…
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 accepted to openly experience difficult…
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, contributing greatly to the wreckage…
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. Recovery teaches us--- Love is…
Things that once caused me shame: My thin awkward body and brownish (non-white) skinMy name--the one assigned to me at birthMy inability to calm down and focus on what matters…
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