Image credit: Detail of a photo by Carla216 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons This week, when our family pet went missing and later turned up dead, I did an obsessive imitation of some of my favorite literary detectives; like Sherlock Holmes, I tried to piece together the smallest clues and like Hercule Poirot, I [...]
Posts under ‘healing’
Let God What?
Image credit: Photo by Will Foster on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I've been giving a lot of thought recently to the 12 Step saying: "Let go and let God." I was talking to a (non-program) friend about those words a few weeks ago and she asked, "What does that mean? Let go and let [...]
Finding Beautiful
Image credit: Photo by litmuse on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When Mark and I were at the very beginning of our relationship, moving from a flirtatious friendship into love, he signed off some early little love note "a thousand ships for my beautiful." Now who was I to resist a suave Helen of Troy [...]
Filling the Void
Image credit: Photo by Thomas Hawk on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Earlier this month, Jason at The Second Road linked to an article by Nina Caplan, a writer who shares her experience of going without alcohol for a month. What struck me in reading her piece was how boring she found life without alcohol. [...]
Opening Up
Image credit: Photo by casch52 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons This week I plan to tell one of my best and oldest friends about my husband's addiction after nearly six years of silence around it. I've wanted to let her in to this part of my life, because keeping her out -- keeping anyone [...]
Guest Post: There’s Hope on the Other Side
Today's guest post comes from a reader who does not have a blog of her own, but has been looking for an opportunity to reach out to other people who are struggling: to share her experiences and the hope that has been born from her own tragedies... Image credit: Photo by Pandiyan on Flickr Licensed [...]
The Trick of Letting Go
Image credit: Photo by .robbie on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My husband Mark works a 12 Step program of recovery for his sex addiction, modeled on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. Earlier this year he was working on his Sixth and Seventh Steps, which center on gaining a willingness to let go of [...]
Letting Go Is Magical Haikus
Janie was playing and tossed a word thoughtlessly: called her sitter "dumb." She'd been told it hurts -- she'd been told not to use it -- but out the word tripped. Her sitter, calm, said "That really hurts my feelings," as Jane's lip quivered. Jane whispered "sorry," ran off to her room to hide, fell [...]
Isolation
Image credit: Photo by H@Ru on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I feel very comfortable in written words, in the virtual world, but relating to people face-to-face has always been more difficult for me. I'm an introvert (meaning that time around people drains me, even when I enjoy it) and although no longer noticeably shy, [...]
Hobbling Toward Humility
Image credit: Photo by [desta] on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When I was a child, my mother used to drag me off to church every Sunday. Oh, how I hated it, and I told her so. "I hated going to church when I was little too," she told me, "But then, when I was [...]
