This is a blog about abuse and how abusers use the feeling of belonging to groom their victims. If you are a survivor of abuse, you may be triggered. I hope you will find comfort and healing as well here, and that this blog will help you on your recovery and healing journey. One...
On Mental Illness and Recovery
Generally by the time you realize you have mental illness and share the fact with others, it means you are no longer lost and you are back on the road of sanity and life. Mental illness is not being lost. We cope, deny and self-medicate when lost. We survive. Mental illness happens afterwards, when...
No Alcohol, No Problem
It’s pretty sad that we as a society are really against drunk driving and teen rape, but also, as a society, adhere to the peer pressure belief that you need to drink to be cool/adult/throw a good party. It’s a real social stigma, and one that costs people their lives and health. Once the...
Feelings
Sometimes people just want you to roll with life, it or whatever it is, even if you can’t. Feelings are like a wheel. If normal and undamaged you can roll along nicely whatever the terrain. If they are damaged and warped then rolling along is difficult or even impossible. To get moving along you...
On Writing Your Memoir
I’m currently in the process of writing my memoir. This is a lot more difficult than I thought it was going to be. I am also currently attending a memoir writing course at the University of Toronto. I am learning alot through it. I think its a good idea for any writer to take...
Recovery Journal: Courage and Success
As a child you are afraid unless well cared for, loved, treated well. Once you are an adult, you must be the one caring and loving yourself and others. These are the skills good nurture provide you with, and they make the road to adulthood an easy,enjoyable, comfortable journey, and process. If you weren’t...
Recovery Journal: This I Am
( Written in response to being without data for almost a whole day due to outages. And being completely messed up by it all.) I worry about losing myself again, so I worry about losing my stuff (online journals, writing, notes, materials). If my tools for protecting my stuff are threatened, I feel threatened....
Sharing My Journey
The next series of blogs I will be posting, are from my own recovery journals. I am currently in the recovery stage of PTSD and an eating disorder. Keeping, and using my journals have helped me through the roughest of days, and nights, and I hope they can help you as well. Its very...