by Anonymous | Mar 15, 2023 | Voices of Recovery
After 75 years of extraordinarily good health, I have recently had a series of health issues which appear to be unrelated but which I suspect are connected in some way that I don’t understand. As an ACA, I hate mystery. I hate not knowing. But my intuition tells me...
by Anonymous | Nov 1, 2022 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery
Mother: “I would have had an abortion if I had known.” (You are not supposed to be here.) Father (after saying I will come home if he promises not to hit me): “I will not be blackmailed.” (Do not forget. You are not supposed to be here.) Husband: “No one wants to hear...
by Anonymous | Aug 15, 2022 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery
I was asked to write about myself – my hidden disability. Injured at work, determined to be permanent injuries by their own doctors, they called me a liar because they could not see my injuries. They bullied me. They threatened me. They pushed me within an inch of my...
by Anonymous | Jun 15, 2022 | ACA Toolbox, ComLine
God, grant me the serenity to stop beating myself up for not doing things perfectly, the courage to forgive myself because I’m working on being better, and the wisdom to know that you already love me just the way I am. Anonymous...
by Anonymous | Mar 15, 2022 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery
This is a very difficult subject for me. Isolation is where I go when something in the world overwhelms me. It’s where I go when I’m hurt. It’s where my parents put me. It’s all I know when there is pain.The most horrible thing about isolation is that there is no...
