Thank you for sharing your processing journey. I can’t believe it was a year ago. I never went back to Tempest, but I miss the community you and Max built there. That situation and others, led me back to drinking for a bit, but left me with knowledge and a full toolbox I couldn’t ignore for long. Today I’m 131 days AF and feeling better than ever! Thank you so much for all the love and support, and the continuation of that through your inspired writings. Much love!
Miss you friend...and incredibly proud of you. It's really powerful to have built that knowledge and toolkit that calls you back. Celebrating you on 132 💗
The wisdom and honesty you share is beautiful. Whenever I get to check in here it helps me feel, connected and hopeful. And a little less crazy about the intensity of our personal and collective journey. Thank you.
Clarification on my comment above, I meant our personal and collective journey’s in a global sense. It’s a trip how a single letter in this case an “S” at the end of “journey” can appear to change context. Here is a topic idea: I would love to read your take on the nuisance’s of language in text, email, and social media. Personally I sometimes have a kind of anxiety about my own comments, but nonetheless I like to comment.
First of all, thank you for commenting friend! It's really nice to hear from folks so I don't feel like I'm typing into a void...so deeply appreciate you! I would love to hear more about the topic idea...do you mean whether to comment or engage? Anxiety about how? How text is interpreted/often misinterpreted? (Because I have that same anxiety!)
For me I usually feel comfortable commenting especially in a welcoming place such as the space you have created here. My anxiety is mainly around tone and length of my comments. Sometimes my initial thought response can be humorous or witty, but then I think of all the ways it could misinterpreted and self sensor or use lots of words… over explain. Truly I make things way more challenging then necessary. Timing is also an issue for me…
Oh mygodess, I'm crying. It feels so good to hear about you talking about being laid off because we all speculated on what happened.. how you must have felt. How we all felt. I stayed sober for half a year after leaving tempest and the trauma(I don't use trauma lightly but this really was) of you two being just poor gone and then the unraveling of something I thought was going to be solid..as long as I payed for it atleast. I'm far from sober now days but hearing that you still are, that Max is.. that you found a real silver lining from your initial pain.. it makes me believe I can do it to and also that shit will be ok even if it's fucking hard to see it when your in dark hole. I love you. Please send my love to Max too. Your my people 💓
Hi sweet friend...holding your heart tight and so glad to hear from you...just was talking about you the other day (FINALLY got Max to rewatch Vikings with me! 💜) I am so so sorry that you and other folks were hurt in the fall out of all of it, in the space that's left that's where the grief still sits. I know the feeling of the ground being gone between one step and the next, and how jarring that is especially in the realm of recovery. And I know with every ounce of me that you can do it and please know you're so loved and all of your people are still here to love and support you. Love you so much.
Love you more. You've been everything in my sobriety and to know you and Max are still there, writing, showing up and staying sober through heartache and pains .. is everything to me 💓
Thank you for sharing your processing journey. I can’t believe it was a year ago. I never went back to Tempest, but I miss the community you and Max built there. That situation and others, led me back to drinking for a bit, but left me with knowledge and a full toolbox I couldn’t ignore for long. Today I’m 131 days AF and feeling better than ever! Thank you so much for all the love and support, and the continuation of that through your inspired writings. Much love!
Miss you friend...and incredibly proud of you. It's really powerful to have built that knowledge and toolkit that calls you back. Celebrating you on 132 💗
ayyy, I can/can't believe it's been a year. So many gorgeous lines in this piece, dear Lisa.
Miss you so damn much and so grateful to stay connected through our words.
Love you friend
i love you ooodles & i am so freaking grateful for each & every dispatch from your great adventure ♥️
Oh, friend. These emails always stop me in my tracks and hit me right where it counts. This one moreso than any. So grateful for your voice.
I was thinking of you two this morning. Sending you and Max the biggest, gayest hugs!❤️❤️❤️
Hugs RECEIVED. Love you friend!
The wisdom and honesty you share is beautiful. Whenever I get to check in here it helps me feel, connected and hopeful. And a little less crazy about the intensity of our personal and collective journey. Thank you.
Clarification on my comment above, I meant our personal and collective journey’s in a global sense. It’s a trip how a single letter in this case an “S” at the end of “journey” can appear to change context. Here is a topic idea: I would love to read your take on the nuisance’s of language in text, email, and social media. Personally I sometimes have a kind of anxiety about my own comments, but nonetheless I like to comment.
First of all, thank you for commenting friend! It's really nice to hear from folks so I don't feel like I'm typing into a void...so deeply appreciate you! I would love to hear more about the topic idea...do you mean whether to comment or engage? Anxiety about how? How text is interpreted/often misinterpreted? (Because I have that same anxiety!)
For me I usually feel comfortable commenting especially in a welcoming place such as the space you have created here. My anxiety is mainly around tone and length of my comments. Sometimes my initial thought response can be humorous or witty, but then I think of all the ways it could misinterpreted and self sensor or use lots of words… over explain. Truly I make things way more challenging then necessary. Timing is also an issue for me…
Look forward to reading more Snoozletter :)
No words...just tears and love vibrating across the internets <3
Wow, this one makes time feel different.
Needed this while I’m stuck on the couch w covid.
Enjoy your month off, Lisa ☺️❤️
Oh no feel better friend! Hope you're on the mend soon!
Oh mygodess, I'm crying. It feels so good to hear about you talking about being laid off because we all speculated on what happened.. how you must have felt. How we all felt. I stayed sober for half a year after leaving tempest and the trauma(I don't use trauma lightly but this really was) of you two being just poor gone and then the unraveling of something I thought was going to be solid..as long as I payed for it atleast. I'm far from sober now days but hearing that you still are, that Max is.. that you found a real silver lining from your initial pain.. it makes me believe I can do it to and also that shit will be ok even if it's fucking hard to see it when your in dark hole. I love you. Please send my love to Max too. Your my people 💓
Hi sweet friend...holding your heart tight and so glad to hear from you...just was talking about you the other day (FINALLY got Max to rewatch Vikings with me! 💜) I am so so sorry that you and other folks were hurt in the fall out of all of it, in the space that's left that's where the grief still sits. I know the feeling of the ground being gone between one step and the next, and how jarring that is especially in the realm of recovery. And I know with every ounce of me that you can do it and please know you're so loved and all of your people are still here to love and support you. Love you so much.
Love you more. You've been everything in my sobriety and to know you and Max are still there, writing, showing up and staying sober through heartache and pains .. is everything to me 💓
Sending you big big hugs friend. You've got this.