When I don’t write, it usually means I’m doing rather poorly… and when I do come back to write, it usually means the tide has turned. Today, right now, at this very moment – yes this is true.
- My friend lost her mom a couple of weeks ago.
- A former coworker of mine died [...]
Archive for the ‘stress’ Category
Life has not been fair lately…
Posted in Celebrate Recovery, change, depressed, faith, friends, gratitude, honesty, love, pain, recovery, sick, stress, tired, work, tagged anger, Christian, fever, paralegal, sponsor, writing on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Feeling scattered
Posted in anxiety, faith, feelings, frustrated, guilt, honesty, orthodontics, self-worth, shame, sick, stress, understanding, work, tagged chores, duty, email, hunger, ketosis, law office, lyrics, vomit on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Back to faith again… writing about it has made me want responses on faith, so I have used some of my recent blog entries as the inspiration for some emails. I have needed responses to my thoughts and feelings on faith from those who know me outside of these written words. I have [...]
Starting over in 2009
Posted in angry, boundaries, change, coping, crochet, faith, friends, guilt, honesty, lessons learned, orthodontics, privacy, recovery, relationships, self-injury, self-worth, shame, stress, suicide, understanding, work, tagged Bible, cell phone, compassion, emergency room, future, grace, love, mistakes, scars, smile, stitches, vote on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes a sermon really gets to me and today I heard one of those sermons – it was straight to the point, no candy coating, and hit home in places I wasn’t quite ready to explore… yet I’m needing to explore… so I’m typing my thoughts out I can get a better grasp of them.
According [...]
What the heck I’ve been up to…
Posted in braces, depressed, discouraged, eating disorder, exhausted, faith, feelings, finances, frustrated, honesty, lessons learned, orthodontics, recovery, relationships, scared, self-injury, stress, suicide, unemployed, work, tagged bills, cleaning, friendship, grocery store, new job, profanity, roommate, stitches on December 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Yeah, well… I’m a changed woman! My life has been more of a whirlwind these last few months than much of anything else. Not totally sure what to make of the mess I have made and others have made, but I’m trying to turn that around and focus a little more on faith.
We [...]
A new trigger…
Posted in Celebrate Recovery, church, control, coping, faith, fuck off, guilt, honesty, lessons learned, pain, recovery, relationships, self-injury, self-mutilation, shame, stress, tired, tagged AA, blood, celebration, church, cutter, emergency room, grace, scars, self-harm, stitches, vagina on October 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It has been one hell of a past three weeks and now I’m almost not sure what to do because well, it appears as though fertility is my latest trigger – actually, it has to do with the blood my body is passing as result of me not getting pregnant this month. I cannot [...]
A much needed update of sorts
Posted in coping, faith, friends, self-injury, stress, tagged cutting, faith, self-mutilation on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t written because I haven’t written. No reason except for it just hasn’t happened. My offline life has been a rollercaoster that I could have never imagined riding on — I’m still riding, but I no longer feel as much apprehension and dread.
My new job, financial stressors, my job at the grocery [...]
