Boundaries Are Hard
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…
Listen, Learn, Serve
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…
Obedience to the Unenforceable
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…
Eggshells are Easily Broken
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…
Claiming Responsibility
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…
Thank You for Letting Me Go
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…
Freedom from THE Shame
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…
Cycle Breaking–and the Fall Out
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 group of people , but…
Better Living
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 every single 12 step program…
Sweet Mercy
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 year ago. I am hoping…
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