I sought professional help a third time, attempting to sort through my psychoses (my term, not a clinical diagnosis). Something this time was prodding and piercing my protective wall. The gift from my counselor of the second edition of the […]
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Not Today!
Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day? Are you serious? In West Texas? Recovery, sanity, go away, I’m tired, depressed, don’t want to. Oh, but I want you, Recovery. I want all the benefits, all the joy, all the […]
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Would that I could but I can’t control me. I swear that I’ll change but cannot agree for I bicker and protest and fall on my face seek the good but instead to pitfalls I race disgruntled and hopeless, for […]
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We start with Step One. Our lives are unmanageable. By that we mean we’re miserable, perhaps suicidal, depressed as heck, at the end of our rope. We work the rest of the steps and find it so much better, a […]
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Decades ago a wise woman said, “Too many people are born again and again but never grow up.” Starting over. Honorable. Essential so often. We eternally return to the First Step. Yet if it’s the same place, the same unmanageable […]
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