Week Five
Unrelated things which I have thought or heard over the past five weeks: Sometimes we need to explain or discuss things in order to gain a deeper understanding. Explaining is not…
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,…