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…
Good, better, and not enough
Last week, Ed, my friend from the mountains, visited for our week together and we had such a nice time doing the most basic shit. Yardwork, making food, checking out…
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,…
The Pattern of Punish, Shame, Rescue: What I Finally See
Who in your life held you in unconditional high regard and rooted for you, ride or die, 24‑7‑365? Who in your life consistently instilled messages of doubt, fear, shame, guilt,…