Family Addiction, Mental Health and a whole lot of Faith
Life, reflection, and aging. If mid-life is here, what I am in it?
Day 1,765,453 in migraine hell. If not true, it feels this way. For weeks now, I have had a migraine. Not just weeks though, since I was all of 11 years old. I wish I never had to share when I had a migraine. Unfortunately, it's read on my face. The pain has an expression …
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Because I do what I don't want to do in hopes of having things my way.
So, please remember there is a woman out there like me. She’s wearing so many hats you can’t see her face anymore. She’s juggling so many balls she may never look away and see you. If she does, you won’t be able to handle the subsequent crash.
This is a double life. Battling sorrow and grief of someone who still lives, and beaming with positive energy as I move forward. I don’t pretend, I’m not wearing a temporary mask with a drawn on smile. I choose joy.
What is to come of a community of people who follow the trending word of the day? Or the headline of the week? How will our youth ever grow up to be free thinkers when all we do is tell them what to think by force, intimidation and a cancel culture hell bent on making society follow suit.
Grief is strange. You want to stay in bed, but suddenly find the energy to move. You find yourself crying throughout the day, right after laughing with someone at your desk.
Can we just pass on into January and let this time float into the unknown?
I thought ‘who I am’ was wrapped up in titles and what I do, but I am very wrong. My identity is lovingly written on the palm of God’s hand. (Isaiah 49: 15-16).
In all the mothering I did, speaking encouragement into the broken lives of my children, and lifting up unceasing prayer, I found peace in the truth of letting go. It does not only apply to addicted kids, it applies to all kids.
I know the doubt, fear, and frustration in managing the symptoms of bipolar. If I prayed long and hard enough, I thought I would be healed, cured, and labeled a miracle. So far, that has not happened. I am still balancing bipolar, but with a new understanding of my mind.
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