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I need to get something off my chest. I have to call myself out. I have to tell everyone that I've been kind of lying to, or even sort of lying by to withholding.I have to rat myself out because today it just has to be said.
Keep ReadingBut the thing about acceptance is this: it isn’t a single moment in time. At least not for me. Some people—a lot of people—talk about having a moment, a “rock bottom,” where they sink as low as they possibly can and realize they simply can't go on. Call it a spiritual awakening. Call it a psychic change. In AA circles, it's called “the gift of desperation."
Keep ReadingWe can’t understand why things are happening when they do. So we wait.
Keep Reading"Are you happier?" A friend of mine asked me this recently. He was referring to whether I was happier sober. Happier with this way of life I've been working so hard to live into for 1.5 years.
Keep ReadingNo year is all bad, of course, but some we are so eager and so relieved to usher out the door – like a long visit from an unwanted guest who has left one too plates of crusty food in our kitchen, taken one too many shits in our bathroom.
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