During family weekend, seven months into addiction treatment and recovery, I am seated across from my 22 year old son. We are sitting “knees to knees," face to face, eyes to eyes within a circle of four other families. The counselor says, "Holding eye contact, take turns sharing one resentment, one regret and one affirmation with each other.”
This is so well written describing exactly how I have felt over the years, with all the different advice. I need recovery and I’m grateful to have found this group.
I am there or here now. So frustrated, doing my best to educate myself, remain hopeful, desperately fighting to hold it all together, and most importantly lead my girls back to a healthy environment/lifestyle, empowering them to trust and feel safe. Seeking the resources and support for us to come back together, reset, process, and heal from all the complex traumas we have experienced. ITC feels like the right path and makes the most sense to the core of my being. It has taken a lifetime of hard knocks and 2 years of major loss to get here. I'm grateful and will do everything in my power to share with other mothers, humans, and society to recover with compassion, kindness, choice!
This is so well written describing exactly how I have felt over the years, with all the different advice. I need recovery and I’m grateful to have found this group.
Thanks for sharing your personal story so openly and honestly.
I am there or here now. So frustrated, doing my best to educate myself, remain hopeful, desperately fighting to hold it all together, and most importantly lead my girls back to a healthy environment/lifestyle, empowering them to trust and feel safe. Seeking the resources and support for us to come back together, reset, process, and heal from all the complex traumas we have experienced. ITC feels like the right path and makes the most sense to the core of my being. It has taken a lifetime of hard knocks and 2 years of major loss to get here. I'm grateful and will do everything in my power to share with other mothers, humans, and society to recover with compassion, kindness, choice!