Day: March 17, 2016
A Letter To An Addicted Colleague
When you walked up to me with a three-day old IV-port and told me that you were on daily pethidine for severe peptic ulcer disease, I suspected something fishy.
https://barefootmeds.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/a-letter-to-an-addicted-colleague/
thoughts
Even though I tried to quit many, many times over the last 10 years, there are only 2 times that have left a lasting impression. The first being September 18, 2013 to April 1, 2015. My first big step into the sober arena. It was where I met all you wonderful bloggers. AA is/was not […]
https://danglingontheedge.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/thoughts-2/
poem: conversation about a bottle
are you sure this bottle can’t fix me? are you absolutely sure? maybe I didn’t swallow it just right maybe if I try one more time this broken bottle will fill this hole perfectly no it can’t fix you this I am sure of really? it can’t? aren’t we all made of the same things? […]
https://eccentricsheepie.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/poem-conversation-about-a-bottle/
Humility
Since getting clean, I have been okay with admitting that I am and always will be an addict. I was okay with the fact that it affected all areas of my life, and admitted it in my step work and with others. What I was in denial about was my nicotine addiction. I remember coming […]
A letter I never sent
Hi all, I thought I would share one of those famous “letters you should write even if you ever send them” letters. The ones counsellors and therapy sites tell you you will find therapeutic. I did. Although sometimes I really wish I had the balls to just send it. The reality is, instead of the […]
https://bestrongeralone.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/a-letter-i-never-sent/
Depression is an evil Liar
Many moons ago I suffered from deep, deep depression. Imagine the kind of depression that walks into your life out of nowhere and slowly kills a part of you. When that part is gone then it jumps inside of you, replacing what once was a part of you and now exists as a deep dark […]
https://epicjournalofmylife.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/depression-is-an-evil-liar/
My First High
My first high. The first time I put something in my body just because I wanted to see what it could do. I was 9 years old attending Valley Elementary School in Alabama. It’s 1999 and my best friend’s name is Paige. Paige was always the kind of girl who was a little off. She […]
https://misfitspirit.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/my-first-high/
codependency and alcoholism – parallel diseases
Someone posted this on the Sober Recovery message board. It is 1000% true and something that I finally realized. Maybe if you try and think of codependency and alcoholism as similar problems, then you can understand why it is just as hard to get rid of someone you love no matter how much of a […]
https://hellojada.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/codependency-and-alcoholism-parallel-diseases/
Abuse is terrorizing.
How do you write about something that people are afraid to see? How to you expose an undermining, but insidious practice? How do you change peoples’ minds? How does a civilization heal from the wounds of abuse? Those that suffer abuse are traumatized. Trauma causes a person to reside in the past where the abuse […]
https://attentiontoliving.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/abuse-is-terrorizing/
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