I suppose we can blame YM magazine, really. When I was 11, I stole my older sister’s magazine to do a few quizzes. And while marring her precious magazine, I stumbled upon a story where a teenager claimed to get pregnant from sitting on a toilet seat.
Thank you for being so transparent! It's not the same at all and I won't pretend to understand your story but I'm a recovering alcoholic of 15 years and is was alcohol that I turned to and focused on to relieve all of my other issues. I initially thought alcohol was the root of all of my problems and if I could just kick that everything else would fall into line. Turned out alcohol was just an outlet and when the alcohol was out of my life all of the other issues were still there... in all the chaos I found God and even God never promised to take care of all my issues but I did finally find sanity again in my faith and learned how to better handle the other stuff without being destructive to myself.
Thank you for your story cause it gives me some knowledge in knowing how to pray for you. I wish you well on your recovery journey as that's just what it is, a journey, the long walk, a lifestyle, never ending adventure. Someone said to me... no matter how far down the road we are on recovery, we are still only three feet from the ditch. So we must remain vigilant and focused on our path.
I like the idea of something internal needing a place to be; in this case your use of buckets. Understanding who and what we are is an incredibly complex and monumental task. I've been visiting my therapist weekly for about 6 years now. She uses analogies like your buckets to help me understand some concepts, I guess I'm a very visual person. When dealing with grief upon my parents both passing in 2020, she gave me Grief is a train we ride, sometimes it stops and other times it moves us at 200mph, not letting us go. For some reason that made sense to me.
Anyway, I really like your buckets and see how much of a challenge you face daily. It's a very human problem, and makes us other humans feel like we are not alone. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for being so transparent! It's not the same at all and I won't pretend to understand your story but I'm a recovering alcoholic of 15 years and is was alcohol that I turned to and focused on to relieve all of my other issues. I initially thought alcohol was the root of all of my problems and if I could just kick that everything else would fall into line. Turned out alcohol was just an outlet and when the alcohol was out of my life all of the other issues were still there... in all the chaos I found God and even God never promised to take care of all my issues but I did finally find sanity again in my faith and learned how to better handle the other stuff without being destructive to myself.
Thank you for your story cause it gives me some knowledge in knowing how to pray for you. I wish you well on your recovery journey as that's just what it is, a journey, the long walk, a lifestyle, never ending adventure. Someone said to me... no matter how far down the road we are on recovery, we are still only three feet from the ditch. So we must remain vigilant and focused on our path.
You ROCK!!
I like the idea of something internal needing a place to be; in this case your use of buckets. Understanding who and what we are is an incredibly complex and monumental task. I've been visiting my therapist weekly for about 6 years now. She uses analogies like your buckets to help me understand some concepts, I guess I'm a very visual person. When dealing with grief upon my parents both passing in 2020, she gave me Grief is a train we ride, sometimes it stops and other times it moves us at 200mph, not letting us go. For some reason that made sense to me.
Anyway, I really like your buckets and see how much of a challenge you face daily. It's a very human problem, and makes us other humans feel like we are not alone. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for writing and sharing this ❤️❤️❤️ I love reading what you write and am cheering for you always. ❤️
You are a courageous honest warrior! Be kind, be cool, be you. You are thick in the journey just be there. Nothing but love,
Dana D
Love a good fn disclaimer. Tell me you’re an attorney without telling me you’re at attorney 😂 Thanks for sharing as always.