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He's dead now, so maybe it won't scare me so much to tell his story. I still feel loyal to him, as I was taught to in my dysfunctional first family. Telling the story still seems punishable, even though I've completed therapy long ago. I've been diagnosed with a rare blood disorder now and...
One thing abt being in a dysfunctional first family is that you take on a role for the sake of survival. You actually believe the role is really you, too. To escape the addiction cycle I embraced perfectionism and an escapism - form of the Christian religion. When my boyfriend/fiance...
Lost mom to bladder cancer and then brother Mike died Christmas night in his sleep.
I allowed a year of grieving. Im going to be okay. But this is hard. Dad died 26 years before mom. Two brothers left.
Im leaning on Christ. I continue to grow. I praise God for all that i have.
I keep finding myself trying to improve my whole self, and trying to do more for the good of others or of the world. I keep sensing this heavy burden to be more . . .
God is such a God of grace, and no matter what I do or am - it cannot 'break even' with what God's grace has done for me...
you read and read your scripture but when it happens you are still taken back. That's how it is for me the past few years.
I'm talking about when it happens to me, when those around me reject or harm because of my belief system.
Why would I be surprised to find some can't be near me and I...