Big Triggers
I’ve resumed journaling — rigorously, of course, because I tend to do things either with full intensity or not at all. With this man, a widower who lost the love…
Seeing the system clearly from the position of being permanently at fault.
A family scapegoat isn’t created because one person is broken, but because the system resists looking at what’s hurting it.
Cycles of Healing
I wouldn’t have chosen the things that harmed me, but I’m grateful and proud of how I’m allowing myself to be shaped by them. Recovery keeps teaching me about mercy,…
When Kindness Hurts Because It’s New
"Are you seriously still talking about it?” I came to view punishment and shame as logical, natural consequences of being different or displeasing. A great and collective effort was dedicated…
Why I Accepted Less Than Love
Why I Did It Why did I marry a man who made me feel unsafe, unlovable, unworthy of comfort or acknowledgment? Because it was the kind of love I was…
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