I will assume your silence means you need more space at this time. I look forward to a time where we may each communicate openly…
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.
Coming from a long lines of mental illness and untreated addiction, where every non-happy feeling was perceived as anger and responded to with anger, I picked up some…
I am slowly mining gems of peace from the work of reconciling and healing, I must do on my own. According to Reverend Desmond Tutu; healing and…
I cannot help but feel charmed when I hear people in utter exasperation calmly say “Good Grief”. It is so completely wholesome(benevolent) and old school. While grief, may…
Like a child, I want to choose only from a menu of: fun, relaxing, and highly lucrative. Regarding my family of origin, there is no action…
You spot it, you got it…. I was thinking of how I am most irritated by subtle little behaviors in which I assume to know…
My friend, my hero, my badass partner in recovery has shared how her sister was collectively, not only abused, but also blamed for bringing it on herself by…
Because my mother is physically and mentally unwell, 84, and in the hospital, I am feeling twisted up inside, as if I should DO something.…
My mother is in the hospital today having cancerous masses removed. My sister whom I have not spoken to since May emailed the information to…
Recovery has taught me that I must be flexible with my approach or method but not with my needs and principles(which are static-not dynamic). When…