How Are You?
by Christine O. | Feb 1, 2024 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery
“Good!” I feel the need to summarize. “Good!” The exclamation point is to create interest without divulging anything. I do not plan to give any info. I do not plan to offer any details. This is due to an assumption that the other person is not actually interested. Or...
Gated
by Tamara P. | Feb 1, 2024 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery
There is a fine line in the sandWalking a tightropeLearning to juggle one egg at a timeWalking on a frozen riverBeing aware of the delicate waterThe faded line on the beachIt sometimes can move from the waves washing ashoreI can forget where the line wasSlowly dipping...
Grief and Childhood
by Jon F. | Jan 15, 2024 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery
"Genuine grieving for our childhood ends our morbid fascination with the past and lets us return to the present, free to live as adults." - Big Red Book, page 83.My morbid fascination with my past perfectly describes the dissociative state I was in when I compulsively...
The Ex
by Lena L | Jan 15, 2024 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery
This writing is from the point of view of the ex-husband, with the twist of some of the descriptions coming from what I have learned in recovery. It describes some of the thinking processes involved in this dysfunctional marriage and family. Handed down from...
THE DOGWOOD TREE
by Christine O. | Jan 1, 2024 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery
A few months after my younger daughter died of a fentanyl overdose at age 27, I moved to a town where I knew no one, lured by a new-construction house on an undeveloped half-acre lot. The developer had put in a few plants by the front door, but the rest of the lot was...Submission Policy
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