God uses broken people like you and me to rescue broken people like you and me. ~ Eddie Cortes I am broken, thank God! It’s no longer a miserable feeling, being broken. There’s comfort there, in brokenness…because I found a […]
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That Codependent Problem
The way you bleed for those who will not tend your wounds is self harm ~ Nigeen Dara Codependency: “excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, typically a partner who requires support due to an illness or addiction.” Would […]
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Occasionally, I try to reclaim my isolation. I do it by being the know-it-all at OA meetings, by not really being honest with my sponsor, by being too proud to ask for help. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 1662-1664). Why […]
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Faces I don’t know places I could not possibly find again Lonely, isolated, depressed All I can do is carry with me a hope in heart, a power who can and leave a trail of psychic breadcrumbs perhaps someone else […]
Continue reading »I’d PaInt My Life
A searching and fearless moral inventory. Many of us can best write an inventory in words, listing who we resent, what happened, our part of the interaction, and what of our principle needs are affected. That works fine for word […]
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