Category: unteach me

  • Sweet Surrender

    Sweet Surrender

    I’ve been pondering this particular rewrite for several weeks now. While thinking about it, I created the featured image so that I could offer you a visual representation of what surrender looks like “to me.” What’s fascinating is that, in the process, what I was creating taught me a little something about surrender that I…

  • The Author of My Life

    The Author of My Life

    You know what I love the most about writing my story?  New chapters.  Fresh, white, clean pages–not yet colored with ink—lay crisp and uncreased, just waiting for me to pen something new. Something different. Something unique to my own story.  I’m actually back to the rewriting of my original story, Unteach Me, and I’ve made…

  • Rewriting Your Story

    The Icing on the Cake The original writing on this little piece of cyber real estate was published on October 3, 2016. It came to life when I was seven months sober, so it has been parked on WordPress for nearly five years—and it has served as the second mini-chapter of the tale of my…

  • In the Beginning

    In the Beginning

    Let’s start anew! After 3 years and 10 months of being on this blog, and while suffering from COVID-itis (also known as having extra time and trying to make good use of it), I’ve decided… WHAT THE HECK, let’s go back to the beginning. Something I’ve realized is that our stories get old. They become…

  • Unteach Me

    Unteach Me

    A Story of Recovery CHAPTER ONE: IN THE BEGINNING CHAPTER TWO: REWRITING YOUR STORY CHAPTER THREE: THE AUTHOR OF MY LIFE CHAPTER FOUR: SWEET SURRENDER (COMING SOON) HEARING GOD’S WHISPER: Whenever I talk about finding God, I always wonder how people perceive that. You know… like… I wonder if they think I saw a vision (or…

  • A Child of God

    A Child of God

    Asking God to help me see my life from His perspective is what truly helped me. I went back forty years, to when I was lost in that awkward limbo between childhood and adulthood, and serious issues consumed my thoughts. I was convinced that no one would EVER understand what was going on in my head.…