Telling the Truth

connecting the dots of my life

Tag: Recovery

Presence

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eyes smile
reach out
connect

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She was about 10 or 11 years old,
quiet and a bit hesitant.
Though we’d never met, we shared a past.
Not together, but separately.

I’d just told the story about my childhood
to a group of adults and children.
She cried during part of it,
leaned  over and said something to her mother. Read the rest of this entry »

Listening to My Body

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I laughed as I wrote the dialogue between my body and me.  We’ve been having this conversation for a while.  It has, however, escalated in the last month while I’ve been recovering from a respiratory virus. Read the rest of this entry »

Angry Men, Angry Women

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face,
women have been trained to cut off anger.
~Nancy Friday

Anger repressed can poison a relationship
as surely as the cruelest words.
~Joyce Brothers Read the rest of this entry »