This week, Kim and I discuss #8 of Women for Sobriety’s Acceptance Statements.
The fundamental object of life is emotional and spiritual growth. Daily I put my life into a proper order, knowing which are the priorities.
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I called out menopausal the other day.
I said “sick,” of course, because my supervisor isn’t even 30 yet, and if some of my elders look at me like I’m a freak when I try to describe what I’m going through, a kid sure ain’t gonna get it.
My favorite is when people go, “Oh, you’re too young to be going through menopause!” 🙄
To be accurate, it’s called peri-menopause, a kind of living purgatory where you ride the insane “change of life” roller coaster for 7-10 years while still needing to buy tampons. There’s no official age when it hits or boilerplate experience of the impact, although the list of possible symptoms will put hair on your che…sorry, I mean your chin.
So you can see why it’s just easier to say “sick.”
The way I have been feeling between the 18th and 26th days of every monthly cycle over the past year or so, perimenopause might as well be the bubonic plague.
There are days I feel so mentally scattered and emotionally unstable that I have no business putting myself in close proximity to other people, for fear of some “Temple of Doom” shit going down. Those people might be counted on to provide a reference for future job prospects!
This week, Kim and I discuss #7 of Women for Sobriety’s Acceptance Statements.
Love can change the course of my world.
Caring is all-important.
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This week, Kim and I discuss #6 of Women for Sobriety’s Acceptance Statements.
Life can be ordinary or it can be great. Greatness is mine by a conscious effort.
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Someone recently asked me if I went to rehab to get sober, and I was like, “No, but I wish I could go now.”
I mean, generally speaking, there’s nothing I would rather do than put responsible adult life on “pause,” indefinitely, to go read, reflect, hike, do yoga, get therapized, yak with likeminded folks about recovery, philosophy, history, humanity…which, incidentally, is what I do with my friend Kim on our “Living Sober” podcast. It’s worth a listen, if you’re into all that deep stuff, too! 🗣️🎙️👂🏻
I should probably warn you that some off-color language occasionally slips outta my mouth on the pod. In the only listener feedback we’ve received (from someone other than my mom), an emailer took issue with my “use of profanity.” 🙊
Figures! It’s been that kind of season lately, when my square-peg edges seem particularly rough, and all the world seems especially round. Like any good self-protective human who feels cornered, and like any recovering addict who buried their old trusty escape hatch, I find myself really yearning to run away and leave it all behind. Thus, I guess, the rehab fantasy. 🤷🏼♀️
This week, Kim and I discuss #5 of Women for Sobriety’s Acceptance Statements.
I am what I think. I am a capable, competent, caring, compassionate woman.
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In this episode, my co-host Kim and I chat about Statement #4 in the Women for Sobriety program book:
Problems bother me only to the degree I permit.
I now better understand my problems. I do not permit problems to overwhelm me.
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In this week’s episode, Kim and I break down #3 of Women for Sobriety’s 13 Acceptance Statements:
Happiness is a habit I am developing. Happiness is created, not waited for.
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