Recovery Blogger on January 25th, 2008

Kristin Hersh is someone who has always made me think. Her music has always been unlike anything else I’ve heard - and I mean that in the best possible way. Interestingly enough, a lot of the posts that she’s made and a lot of the choices that she’s made in the past few years have [...]

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Recovery Blogger on January 19th, 2008

This week has been a bit of a roller coaster all around; very little went as planned, but overall, I think that’s okay. Things that would have triggered me in the past, didn’t. Things that at one time easily could have pushed me into a tailspin didn’t. Despite high stress levels, emotional questioning and searching, [...]

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Recovery Blogger on December 18th, 2007

That has been something of a trend for me really - not believing that my actions could hurt me. It’s also been a trend for me to hold myself back again and again. What’s starting to become clearer to me is this: I don’t want to be held back by anything anymore, and that includes my own emotions and emotional reactions to different situations.

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Recovery Blogger on December 12th, 2007

There was a time when I was so ill that I didn’t believe that I could feel. I somehow managed to convince myself that the only way that I could feel anything was if there was nothing to distract me from my feelings - the only way that I could connect and experience anything was [...]

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