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Jeri Tippit's avatar

My goodness I needed to read your article this morning. I have tears in my eyes. I can feel, sometimes, how manipulative posts are and have really been starting to wonder how to work my way through the social media morass. My lived experience with people is way more trustworthy than a random post. I love that you're willing to share your feelings - the frustration, the anger, the judgy bits, but most of all the hope. Thank you so much, and keep challenging us.

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Bee Reed's avatar

This resonates so much! I will say, one of the greatest gifts AA has given me (other than, ya know, liberation from being a complete and total waste case of a drunken drug-addled mess 24/7/365) is the mindset of approaching people's experiences, strength, hope, and stories from a place of identifying IN rather than identifying OUT. (For those not in the rooms/familiar, basically it means, look for the things you have in common with someone rather than the places where your stories differ.)

Pretty much everything I've learned in recovery has become a way I strive to use while moving through the world. I'm far from perfectly successful, but at least I have a blueprint I can return to when I realize that the structure I'm building on self-will is about to crumble down on top of me and my best thinking. Thank you, Nadia, for this beautiful and poignant essay.

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