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Observing it and experiencing it without fighting it.
Recovery has reinforced that we don’t have to be defined by our mistakes.
“Slow is smooth and smooth is fast,” I tell her.
All I need to do is live within my integrity.
If you feel genuine sorrow and regret for the things you did, that means you’re healing. It means you’re still human.”
The point is, family isn’t blood, it’s who you bleed for.”
But the more I talk, the more I realize: it is a part of me, and it always will be. I don’t need to put it down. I don’t need to let it go or pretend that none of it happened. I don’t need to force it inward and use it as a tool to punish myself. I just need to greet it with care. I need to recognize it for what it is: the thing that made me who I am. Someone who is trying, today, to be a little better than I was yesterday.
