Category: Sober
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This is the most open I’ve ever been in my public writing, so please forgive me if it runs long. I write because it’s the clearest way I know to speak from my inner world. Sometimes the only way I can express what I feel is through poetry. Other times, like now, I need plain…
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The full moon rose last night, bright and beautiful. I stepped outside to see it. The cold air felt good on my skin, and the world was awash in silver. I sometimes forget that the moon moves the tides. And not just the distant oceans, but the tides in me too. I am mostly water,…
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I step outside every night before bed and I see the stars above the mountains. Their light shimmers in the sky watching over all below. I always make time for the moon, as she has comforted me throughout my life. Her soft light is soothing, a gentle reminder of how good it is to be alive. The mountains are still there, though…
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People use different tools to help them heal, and if something truly helps, then it is good. As I’ve written before, getting off alcohol was hard, but getting off benzodiazepines was even harder. The withdrawal hurt me badly and left scars I’m still healing from, but I’m doing better each day. Everyone in my recovery…
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When I was on benzos, and alcohol before that, I lived in anger.I was drowning my mind and my heart in chemicals every day, and it took a heavy toll. Getting off alcohol was difficult, but getting off benzos was far harder.It broke me down, but the healing that followed has been worth every struggle.Now…
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Hello and welcome!This is the first post on my new blog, a fresh beginning. For many years, I wrote at breakingmyteeth.com, where I wrote about my long, difficult journey of tapering off high-dose benzodiazepines after more than two decades of use. I’ll soon be reposting those earlier writings here in a special section for anyone…
Whispering Wyrd 