Image credit: Photo by funtik.cat on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons The message inside reads: "God is the answer." from Mary Jones to Mark Jones subject Invitation to connect on LinkedIn This seems to be for you but came to me... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sue Smith To: Mary Jones Subject: Invitation to connect [...]
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In a Different Place
Image credit: Photo by DucDigital on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Four years ago, I was sitting in a 12 Step meeting when the secretary announced available service positions. "Would anyone like to be secretary? Please," she said, sounding a little desperate, "It's really not much work. You just come in and read the script." [...]
Us vs. Them
Image credit: Photo by tochis on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Back in the early days of my husband's recovery from sex addiction, the recovery world seemed to break down into two types of people: addicts and the rest of us who had been hurt by them. (And by the way, you couldn't call any [...]
What’s Not in the Holiday Letter
Image credit: Photo by egorsechin on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I got together this week with a dear old friend of mine and caught up for the first time in a long time. She's been busy with work and family crises. I've been busy with the perpetual too much that I always heap on [...]
I’m So Totally Fixed (Almost)
Image credit: Photo by misterbisson on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons For the past several months, I have been working the 12 Steps around my own codependency, and this week, I completed Step 12. You may think that I am typing this post out for you to read, using my human arms and hands, but [...]
Progress
Image credit: Photo by Nick Humphries on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I've found that holidays are the mile markers in my life's highway. As I pass them, I can say: last year I was there, this year I'm someplace else. I can take stock of what's different and what's remained the same. And this [...]
Halloween Present
Image credit: Photo by Liquid Lucidity on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I've heard that the first year is always the hardest, whether it's the first year after you lose a loved one or end a relationship or start recovery. There are all those significant dates rolling around for the first time in your changed [...]
