Tag: sister betrayal

A Different Kind of Life

As a child and young adult I had not known that I possessed any agency over the trajectory of my life. It seemed pre-determined.  In the place

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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

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excessive and ineffective overgeneralization of a happy, optimistic state across all situations. The process of toxic positivity results in the denial, minimization, and invalidation of the authentic human emotional experience.

I Don’t Get It

I was thinking how little I have in common with my family of origin. And then I realized HEY: for most of my life, we

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