Building Walls
It stopped working though, this control. Like a speed boat careening toward the bleachers, my heart told my head to go fuck itself.
Read More Building WallsMonth: September 2016
Clingy, even constricting
In essence, to be codependent is to allow the behavior of another to affect you AND obsess about that person’s behavior to the point of trying to control that person’s behavior.
Read More Clingy, even constrictingRules of Engagement
When the program talks about getting down to causes and conditions, I always understood this to mean we begin to identify those things that set us spinning in the first place. Once addicts begin to spin, the force and destruction that results can be detrimental not only to us but the ones around us. It seeps into our work and personal lives in insidious ways. And that destruction need not result from substance use; our illness is a mental illness. It’s our thinking that derails.
Read More Rules of EngagementDiscernment in the process
Are you a spectator or are you a player? I prefer active participants on my team.
Read More Discernment in the processGrowth and impediment
It sounds like a relatively simple task, but I’m beginning to realize many people cannot or will not do this.
Read More Growth and impediment3,288 days
Sometimes we turn to god
When our foundations are shaking,
Only to find out it is god
Who is shaking them.
-Anon
Don't Squeeze the Kitty 