# Recovery
I shared at that meeting about how I have always felt like I have to prove to someone that I’m worthy of love, how it has sabotaged my love relationships, and how it all began with my mother, who left my dad and me when I was three
We Have No Choice But To Sit With It
Note to Self: Maybe the real flex is letting people feel, say, and think what they want about you, while you continue living with ease, knowing their projections aren’t yours to carry. Remembering who you are and what your truth is can protect your peace.
I thought getting sober would feel like a punishment. Instead, I feel like I’ve been given an opportunity to live a meaningful, intentional life—like my world cracked wide open.
Kristen Blanton Crocker • My Sobriety Story With Kristen Blanton Crocker
As a member of this Program I love that I am here to not just avoid the liquor store, but also practice healthy, sustainable living.
Family Matters
It feels like there are so many contradictory rules: we have to ask questions but also talk about ourselves. We have to be cool but not detached. We have to be smart and informed but not a pretentious know-it-all.
Why We Dread (and Ditch) Our Own Social Plans, Plus 3 Tools to Try
How could anyone ever tell you
You were anything less than beautiful
How could anyone ever tell you
You were less than whole
How could anyone fail to notice
That your loving is a miracle
How deeply you’re connected to my Soul...
You were anything less than beautiful
How could anyone ever tell you
You were less than whole
How could anyone fail to notice
That your loving is a miracle
How deeply you’re connected to my Soul...
Song Lyric Sunday: How Could Anyone Ever Tell You
the emotional literacy section of the manhood handbook was ripped out somewhere around second grade and replaced with “just walk it off.”
Am I a Real Man or Just Dead Inside?
"It lets me be nice to myself, cancel plans, change my mind, be tired, ask for things from other people, and know that I might have different needs from them. By that, other people have different needs from me, and I don't need to feel abandoned by them."