I’d been to OA a dozen years earlier and dismissed it, a babbling crowd chanting nonsense, acting silly… or so it seemed. Oh, how I wish I’d stayed. I decided to try again one mid-December, eight days before Christmas, but […]
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Next Week I’ve got a big week next week and a stuffy nose and deep cough tonight. I need to be able to function in seven days, and my eyes hurt, can’t focus, feel so very tired. My husband is […]
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I come in here embarrassed, eaten with grief, and you hug me. I tell my deepest darkest secret and tears run down my face but when the next person starts to share I find myself blotting a tear and laughing […]
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You would hate me. You would be disgusted. You would pity me, feel my shame, disdain me. You could not love me… not even like me… if you knew me. Nobody wants to be my friend. No one covets my […]
Continue reading »Thank You, No.
Brother, you see my misery, my inability to lose weight, to live a normal life and you want to tell me, to show me, what worked when you were there. I can see you’ve changed, you’re different, but it’s your […]
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