No More Shame
A place for me to share my hope and freedom from a life of shame
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Today is 6 months. 6 months of sobriety. Emotions are high, but the truth is still in tack. I’m sober. Emotions are high because the trauma that leads to addiction is a lifetime of healing and walking through recovery. I wouldn’t trade this sobriety for anything. My relationship with God is so precious. I’m still…
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It’s been an emotional few days. I’m not sleeping well and I found myself telling God over and over; “I’m so sorry”. As again and again my memories are flooding me with all the terrible things I did while I was active in my addiction. The Lord knows I’m sorry, and I know that He…
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Today I choose life. I choose the joy of my salvation. I choose to be sober-minded no matter what comes my way. I choose to receive the grace God has lavished on me. I choose to walk in freedom from addiction to anything. God is number one in my heart and mind. God has delivered…
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One month and a day, that’s how long it has been since I stood on the sweet little picturesque stage at the Colony of Mercy Chapel and received my diploma for graduating from the four month residential rehab program at America’s Keswick in Whiting, New Jersey. Affectionately known as BP or Barbara’s Place for women.…
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too often I excuse how others treat me by saying to myself, “Well, I’ve hurt people too”. This can be dangerous territory for me. Like somehow someone’s bad treatment toward me is okay or somehow justified. Sometimes I don’t even realize that I should be offended or hurt by something someone says or does. Other…
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All my life, all I ever wanted was to “feel” unconditionally loved. Because it was lacking I felt that deeply I was just unlovable, or that no one knew how to love me. What a lie… neglect, abuse, those things do that… they create a lens that we view the world with, or more importantly…
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For over four months I sat beside or in a boat on the lake. I did this every day. I was in a residential rehabilitation program…. we call it rehab. God met me there. He is still with me don’t get me wrong. But He MET me THERE. Slowly He just healed me. I sat…
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A well meaning friend once asked me what I was thinking. (The timing was bad, but the question was good.) I was in the thick of my addiction and I had just done something irrevocably damaging. “What was I thinking”? I was drunk, I really wasn’t…. thinking But – In my core, in that inner…
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I was having a perfectly good day…. Enjoying my new sense of freedom and joy. Then BAM…. I suddenly felt overwhelmed and frustrated. No one particular thing happened, just several small things, but it felt HUGE to my little emotions. There they were just sitting on the surface and I didn’t even know it. I’m…
No More Shame 