False Narratives and Peanut Butter

I thought the self-loathing, anxious, ‘not enough’ aspects of my personality were integral to who I was. But they weren’t. Turning to alcohol to cope with that inner critic was a bad decision.

But my agent wanted an answer, so I did this: I traced my hypersexuality to an incident. It’s because Jack Wolf got in the ol’ sleeping baggerino in 1980. Of course, the idea that an event can change your life is a bullshit narrative construct. That’s not how life works. Except when it does. Life works in all kinds of different ways, sometimes all

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Recovery as spiritual journey:

First you desperately seek an object to bring you happiness, then, after many face plants, you realize no object can do that, so you stop running and finally face what is, where healing and recovery begin, but then, confronted by your naked wounds without your familiar escape hatch, that too becomes a chase, a far sub... See more