May 2023 Wow it’s been a week. Wait it’s been a month. Never mind, it’s been a year. But you know what, there is ALWAYS the next big thing just around the corner to bring on the anxiety. The month of May was a doosie for me. My girls are in dance, so of course […]
May 2023 This is the first weekend my ex has been gone on “his” weekend. I offered to trade weekends and such, but nope. So my ex in-laws are on the job. There’s three soccer events, a dance performance, and my son’s birthday. Needless to say my anxiety is through the roof. My ex in
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April 2023 I was on the phone with my best friend the other day, she lives in Florida and is also in recovery. She and I, in our drinking days, were two peas in a pod. We met at the end of my senior year in college through a guy I was dating, and we
April 2023 Yesterday was a roller coaster day. So excited to have five full days of kid free time, they get picked up at 5pm every Wednesday. We’ve gotten into a good groove of the parenting schedule, a 5-2-2-5. Tonight my ex starts the first 5 days of kids (Wednesday-Monday), then Monday-Wednesday is my 2,
March 2023 I’m totally guessing at the date numbers, just a good guestimate to show you where I am at in the dating life cycle. Dates #1-30 were getting the lay of the land, understanding how all this works, figuring out expectations and boundaries. Within this time frame are many, many stories, and I will
My guilt is overwhelming at times. I look back and see all of the mistakes I made for so so so long. Should I have stayed? Would I have been able to remain sober if I tried to make it work? The wisdom of AA and/or treatment is “don’t make any major life changes or
So about 22 months ago I entered Hazelden Betty Ford for treatment of alcoholism. I was 42, a mother of three children, a wife in a very dysfunctional marriage, a master’s level clinical social worker, and a aspiring writer of children’s books. Little did I know entering those doors would be the beginning of the
So I’ve been putting off how to do a blog for a year now… 11 months ago I learned I needed to create a website so I purchased all the stuff…and being the least tech savvy person on this planet, I had no idea what to do next. I played around with it and just