Fuck right off with this “lens of shame” bullshit. What I read was a person who absolutely ISNT ashamed, but has found the right path for themselves in life- we should all be so lucky.

Thank you for this—recovery is so complex, it is rarely a binary. I don’t have an ED but am in recovery from alcohol. When I first got sober, I wanted to tell everyone so that I had accountability stashed all over the place, and that was helpful, but after a while of being sober, I started to worry that I had created…

“she should make that decision with her doctor and between her and her God.” Right, like when your God says “well I will forever smite you and burn you in the deepest hottest fires of hell if you kill this rape love baby”, sometimes you just to bite the bullet and do what is right for you and only you!

Thank you so much for writing this- I am 4 years and 1 month sober, and this whole time, through zoom AA meetings, and made and broken meetings in person with my sponser when we realize its either too cold or too COVID-y to meet up, I’ve been thankful I wasn’t just getting sober during the pandemic. Could you imagine,…

My dad was dying of slowly of penumonia, but really of Lewy Body demenita, and had been bouncing between nursing home and hopsital for four months (psa get your parents to do living wills, this was the worst way for a beautiful life to end just because we could not convince my mom to let him go and do hospice). My…