Everyone is affected and there is no “bad guy”, there are wounded people- wounded parts. However, not all parts have equal responsibility in interactions and not all people have equal culpability. I heard multiple times “you and your mother…” or “why can’t you and your mother...”, as if a child had the same level of authority, experience, power, and responsibility as the parent, let alone the addict. Putting voice to this I realized I had been gaslit by the trap of moral equi

I have a part of me that would get foggy when I wanted to talk about gaslighting.....

For so long, and from so many people I have heard “Mercury is going into Retrograde” with a sense of dread and resignation...

O'Sullivan’s Pub: a little hole in the wall Irish restaurant in which I have worked a total of six months. In those six months, I have...

Imagine this.. You’re in school, the day of a big presentation. You’ve watched your classmates give their presentations perfectly, no...

There have probably been dozens maybe hundreds of things I have read on Acceptance and they have all been fabulous, some even quotable,...

Why is grounding important? Valid question but as I went to answer I thought, back-up. I should probably start by defining it. I have...

I was physically shaking. I could hardly breathe. My vision was blurred. I felt consumed and as though I was drunk with alcohol. Funny...