My recovery journey would have been a lot smoother had there been better social conditions for me to thrive in. There was no referral to treatment services; my only option
The Vulnerability Hangover “The challenge with personal development is that once you start to explore and uncover new aspects of yourself, there’s no turning back, and it can be
It took me some time to realise it, and some days are still hard but….. For years, I had a negative attitude, but nowadays I try to practice patience and
I am an Unapologetic writer. A speaker of my truth. I am an incomplete jigsaw working on myself Piece by piece. Just another person in her quest for internal
Before joining Mulka Nisc photovoice research project, I had never previously considered gender differences, probably because I’m a tomboy at heart, and I have always struggled with the concept of
The chains that once held me down Can now be found broken and loose on the ground The chains have now rusted away. And all that is left now are
They saw her through a lens of shame and proclaimed “She only had herself to blame.” They couldn’t see the afflictions that lay behind the addiction, That this wasn’t a
In pre-contemplation’s shadowed haze, My mind was veiled, lost in a narcotic maze. I didn’t know my own mind I was oblivious and blind Some people remarked I had changed
There is an old saying that says, ‘Talking to yourself is a sign of madness,’ but I would disagree because I would still have been in the madness had I
I’ve been secretly wanting to write this blog for years to challenge some of the views and opinions of a small minority of whom I refer to as the “Recovery
