With Courage We Can

07/05/2025

01/23/2025

I needed this reminder today. I figured you did too.

🖊️ IG: realdepressionproject

08/02/2024

So many deep breaths. So many loud long inhales and exhales. You know how people talk to themselves, I deep breathe, out loud, to myself, in public. My kiddo often catches me. Love her side eye and smile when she does. Keep breathing people! We got this.

08/01/2024

Step back and pause is difficult for me. If I stop moving I feel like it will all slip away. That’s the wound talking. Sit down wound, you’re being too loud. Move on, move forward, get to the end of the tunnel has been a method of coping for most of my life, it’s hard wired in me. It’s an attribute and Achilles’ heel. I have to be mindful of when and why I’m using the push through it method of coping. Taking a pause over the last few months has been challenging and really good for me. I’ve gained fresh insights and found the courage to pivot and nothing slipped away 👏❤️

03/01/2024

I once believed this to be true.

Years of recovery work (therapy, group meetings, retreats, books, workbooks, journaling, even a sweat lodge) showed me a way to forgive myself, to identify my wounds (past and current) and work through what parts of those wounds were mine to own.
Recovery work also showed me the parts of those wounds that had nothing todo with me. The work showed me the power of mindset and that self love is where all the love starts.
The process brought me understanding and empathy for humans, all humans, I hadn’t realized I owned and gave freely, but that I did not give that same understanding and empathy freely to myself.

🧡Add that devastating realization to the list of pain points🤭 we are dealing with🧡

The sadness at the beginning of my work looked like numbness and confusion wrapped in panic with a side of anxiety. If I were on the out side looking in at me it would’ve been disturbing to witness.

*I bet you’re asking what does any of the above have todo with resentment… resentment for me is the last stop on a runaway train of emotions and codependency. Where we’ve exhausted all of our tools in our tool box and surrender happens against our will.

It’s there, at that last stop, I was stuck in that swirling s**t storm that my life, my mind, and my emotions had help create. I had no other choice than to own my piece of it and begin recovery.

Im in my 8th year. The practice of forgiving myself has been painful and hard to develop. It is a progression I will continue to build on. As I’ve navigated this self forgiveness practice I’ve found a way to let go of the resentment I carried for my addict/alcoholic and forgive him and myself for the pain and suffering we received and delivered in our years together and apart.

All the layers of this journey are connected and it’s all apart of finding the emotional freedom to feel calm, peace, and joy.

03/01/2024

The love we have for our addict alcoholics is so deep it feels like we can’t live without them. We allow that love to put us in situations we otherwise would not be in and when they don’t choose us we make up excuses to keep loving them through them treating us so awfully.

01/25/2024

A class that brings you a new tool to help you clear your mind to grow.

01/24/2024

01/23/2024

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01/19/2024

A really good read or listen!

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01/19/2024

My kiddo found this while we were walking on the beach. Love can really find us anywhere if we are open to seeing it.

01/17/2024

Self preservation hits different. Self preservation is recognizing that you have put yourself in a damaging and or dangerous situation and that only you can get yourself out. This is hard stuff. Self preservation doesn’t mean you are doing it alone, asking for help, accepting help, grabbing a life line is apart of self preservation. Friend, hear me when I say this, there is always a solution, there is always a choice, there is help. Self preservation is the hard road we travel to get ourselves to a better place. I will travel that hard road of self preservation a 1000 times over to get the hell out of a dangerous, damaging life. Finding the courage to live a better life is self preservation. Leaving our situation is self preservation. Speaking the words out loud that we deserve better is self preservation.