Facing My Trauma
You could say I’ve been through a trauma or two.
Topic: healing
Love Worth Living. Life Worth Loving.
Come on decades of therapy, do your thing. Come on endless sessions in rehab, remind me that I am more than my rage.
To Choose Vulnerability
I am now searching for the keys to unlock my caged emotions so that I might once in a while admit candidly before others that I am not always doing okay. And maybe, just maybe, it will be all right for me to be human.
Flowers at Your Feet
The good exists even if it’s small, silly, or invisible.
Never Too Broken
If healing is finite, I am far from being healed, but I am not broken.
Carrying Each Other
I’m here today for a lot of reasons, but TWLOHA is certainly one of them.
Kitchen Sink
Maybe you’re like me, wondering if the temptation to harm yourself will ever go away. If I’m being honest, I really wish it would.
When You Feel Like a Fraud in Recovery
I spend much of my day supporting people in their lowest moments. I try to convey that they are worthy, that they deserve support and help, and how important it is that they take care of themselves.
Something Worth Fighting For
No matter how ephemeral those good moments are, they’re what I live for.
Sobriety Isn’t a Secret
I didn’t realize how many people were in my corner until I actually let them into my corner.
Forward
I reached five years of being self-harm free this past October. It was a milestone that often seemed impossible to achieve.
I Want to Live
It was a matter of telling myself, “I want to live,” even when all I wanted to do was die.
