Raw & Real: There’s no one coming to wipe up the beautiful mess of our lives. No one. There was no one growing up who could see the mess they were creating, there was no intentional living, no conscious choices being made about our future mental and emotional health or what might be handed down.
Our Parents recovery journey is not ours to navigate or chart. The choices they make must be theirs and theirs alone. The moment we step in to guide, to offer direction, is the moment we can be pulled back into old habits of codependence
In our Facebook Peer Support Group, I see a lot of us asking “Should I…?” questions of each other. This is actually one of the reasons why being in a peer group is so great. We are talking with people who ‘get’ what we are going through and collectively have tried a lot of different things.
Using the POWER of #onenextstep to manage decision fatigue. [P]ICK [O]NE step, check it off for the [W]IN, then [E]VOLVE and [R]EPEAT.
Religion and politics. Those are topics you are wise to stay away from if you want to maintain peace at gatherings of friends or family. But, let’s face it, religion and politics are the two main ways people come together, become one, support one another with passion, unite as US to fight THEM, and deeply feel love and hate.