Cover Up!
As part of my practice of recovery, I do take daily personal inventory and sadly, I am not so recovered that I resist also taking my sister’s and my ex’s. I…
What Shame Does
Nothing good has ever come from shame in my life. It never faded on its own, and when I didn’t face it, it made me unwell — and it spilled…
uniformity v. solidarity
"You are either in agreement with (like) us or against us." That mentality is the ancestral curse I am working to crush, one day at a time. Before recovery, my intense,…
What is Schadenfreude?
Though I am intimately familiar with the energy and attitudes I’ve always identified in the “serves you right” types, I only just discovered the term Schadenfreude. I find it fascinating there…