The concept of being categorically and inherently wrong is new to me. I see how labeling an individual or group this way can lead others…
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.
Having been raised in an system in which love (access to connection and protection) could be earned, lost, and withheld, I did not fare well.…
From my earliest days, my high sensitivity to sensory and emotional impact (and therefore differing needs) were identified as trouble-making, a betrayal, a burden, a…
I suspect that I am the only one in my entire lineage (and also the lineage of the person I married and divorced)— able and…
I’ve been thinking lately about life in survival mode, how it prevented me from setting and working toward/achieving goals. And turns out: Goal achievement plays…
The one thing I have most needed to know how to handle, is myself. I am finally learning to do this– with love and compassion.…
Recovery has been a wildly unpopular choice—quite agitating to those threatened by the idea that there is something wrong—other than only my existence. My healing…
In between wrapping gifts and singing along to Country Christmas, I am taken down by the grief of my sister and my mother, the reality…
So, before divorce and finally sweet Greg, I had experienced sex as an act necessary to make a relationship less shitty (or as a thing…