Image credit: Photo by Ron Layters on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A month or so ago, I did something I dread and despise: I took a trip on an airplane. When I fly, the joy is entirely in the destination and not at all in the journey. The flight fills me with terror: terror [...]
Posts under ‘let go and let God’
Control Freaking
Image credit: Photo by h4cks on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I've got plans for tomorrow that are going to keep me away from the computer, and I knew I wanted to squeeze in one last blog post today. So first thing in the morning I began the day right: by panicking because I wasn't [...]
Pick Up the Phone
Image credit: Photo by splorp on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I was struggling today with several issues that have been swimming around in my head lately: my relationship with anger and rage, the place of vulnerability in my recovery, the harsh and insidious voice of my inner critic, my past emotionally and verbally abusive [...]
Other People Have Higher Powers Too
Image credit: Photo by Tonyç on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My husband and I go out regularly without our children, but until recently we had never been away overnight. Difficulties with sleep are common among children with autism, and my son has only just (at age seven) settled into something like a reliable sleep [...]
That’s Close Enough, God
Image credit: Photo by cambiodefractal on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I was hit hard by a virus yesterday afternoon. I am on the mend but still feeling ill. I have found lately that when I am sick, I rely on and feel most in conscious contact with my higher power. But I have to [...]
A Tale of Two Mothers
Image credit: Photo by Omar Eduardo on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons As featured in the New York Times blog Motherlode I A mother and her son are in line at a grocery store. They boy looks like he’s about nine or ten. The mother looks a little tense as the boy starts to fidget [...]
Couples Counseling for Everyone (or Not)
Image courtesy of tombstonebuilder.com A few years ago, a friend of mine got a divorce. About a year before the divorce, she took a one year work assignment that involved lots of travel. She and her husband would spend months apart, and the stress of separation caused fractures to appear in all the little weak [...]
Being Still
Image credit: Photo by h.koppdelaney on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My mind races. Often it races at the same brick wall again and again. I was sitting down at the computer earlier trying to compose a post about something I'm working through in my recovery. My mind was spinning and spinning on the topic, [...]
