recovery
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We left off in a dark place because it was a dark place and there are people out there who would willfully put you back into that dark place and leave you there, if it meant they felt better. The first thing I realized was; I wasn’t unlovable, they were incapable of love. I am… Read more
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****Potential trigger warning for recovering alcoholics and substance users; my story in part, with alcohol.**** The thing about recovery is no one is coming to do it for you. No one is coming to save you. You need to find the will within yourself and in your faith (I hope you have one) to allow… Read more
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There is one piece of subject matter I understand well and am very acquainted with— grief. I think it started when I was a little girl. It was the little things, the silence that should have been praise, the glare that should have been a smile. It evolved into cutting words that never should have… Read more
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There were things that I wanted that I never had… I didn’t have them when I was growing up and I was willing to be the person that I needed to be in order to have them. But somehow, I couldn’t make it happen. My insides didn’t match what I wanted to see on the… Read more
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When troubles come, what is your go to? What mode do you slide into in order to persevere or get through difficult times? What habits have you developed over the years and are they effective? Do you always come out on top, as unshaken as possible? Or are your responses and reactions to troubling times… Read more
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Has the humanity drained out of humans? For a lot of people, yes. But the thing that people avoid within you is the very thing they avoid within themselves. I FEEL everything so huge! I feel it all through my body. That’s really too much for some people because they’re completely disconnected from their feelings.… Read more
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I’ve lived a very different life the last going on 12 years. It’s a life that has been proven to be far removed from the average human. It has caused me to be pretty difficult to relate to. I don’t try to be. I don’t talk over people’s heads and walk around with a lot… Read more
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When we were born, we carried the echoes of our parents and other ancestors’ nervous systems and ancestral baggage. We were born with the templates, the impressions upon our energetic fields. It takes a good deal of conscious effort to avoid the pitfalls and traps set before we even got here. Sadhguru is the only… Read more
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I tried to help them, I truly and honestly did. I gave it everything I had again and again but it was never enough. It never stopped the bleeding. They never felt loved enough, respected enough, seen or appreciated enough. I tried until it felt like it was killing me. I tried until there was… Read more
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Parenting has taught me most of the important things I’ve come to know. Special needs parenting has been the extra icing on the cake AND the after-dinner mint. In every way imaginable, in all of the places I didn’t think I could, I did. In every way imaginable they said we couldn’t, we did. In… Read more