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Not All Teachers Are Great Teachers...But All Teachers Can Teach You Great Things

Rich Roll is one of my favorite pod-casters to watch and this interview with Rabbi Mordecai Finley is particularly insightful. I won't...

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Jul 26, 20213 min read

THE NEGATIVE REVIEWS

Creative people are rather vulnerable beings when it comes to their craft of choice. Be it actors, dancers, artists, writers - when you...

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Jul 17, 20212 min read

What Do You (REALLY!) Believe About Yourself?

I am going to tell you The most private and personal thing I have EVER shared. It's not easy. It feels embarrassing and raw but I feel...

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Jul 14, 20212 min read

Before You're Ready

I always feel so self conscious when I write about how I am "really" ready to finally make the focused and determined effort required to...

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Jul 6, 20212 min read

WHAT TODAY ME WOULD TELL ME 15 YEARS AGO

I started blogging because when I first realized the Beast my husband's alcoholism is, I felt there was no raw, honest place for me to...

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Jun 28, 20213 min read

What's Wrong With Me?

It's nearly 4 o'clock in the morning and I am hiding in the bathroom of a hotel room while my kids sleep. We are on our way home from a...

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Jun 14, 20213 min read

Do You Define Yourself By What You're NOT?

Have you ever been talking with someone and suddenly, words come out of your mouth that you didn't even know were in you? Revealing a...

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Jun 5, 20212 min read

In Case You Are Wondering....

You do deserve more. Even if he stops drinking. Even if he does an inpatient rehab. Even if he goes to AA. Or some other program. Even if...

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Jun 1, 20212 min read

What If We're Not Really Broken

I have felt broken for a long, long, long, long, LONG time now. Being married to an alcoholic will do that to you. Break you. Gut you....

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May 27, 20213 min read

It's Saturday Night At 2:00 am...

There is a woman crying somewhere because he's drunk again. And he's in jail. Or he's passed out. Or he just finished calling her vicious...

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Apr 11, 20212 min read

You and Me? We're The Good Frog

I remember so clearly the very first night the gravity of my situation hit me. My husband had been in an ugly-drunk mood that evening and...

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Mar 30, 20213 min read

Did He Ruin Your Life?

I think it's fair to say that an alcoholic or addict-husband can ruin a woman's life. I know my alcoholic husband ruined mine. The happy,...

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Mar 20, 20212 min read

Do. Something.

I am in the processing of editing my book, "Leaving 101: How To Prepare To Leave Your Alcoholic Hus band - Even If You're Not Ready To...

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Mar 11, 20213 min read

TO THOSE IN THE MIDDLE

I remember many years ago, when I published my first book, "The Alcoholic Husband Primer: Survival Tips For The Alcoholic's Wife," I knew...

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Mar 4, 20213 min read

NOW WHAT?

I think about this blog a lot even though I obviously don't blog a lot. The truth is I have been struggling with what direction I should...

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Feb 19, 20214 min read

This Is For The Woman Up At 2:00 am

It's been a long time now, well over ten years, but I can still feel that night as if it had been yesterday. Where I was sitting. The...

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Feb 7, 20213 min read

I Just Want To Cry (Or Why I Don't Blog Regularly)

Writing a blog doesn't sound hard. In fact, one would not be faulted for thinking, writing is writing - be it a book or a magazine...

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Aug 31, 20202 min read

It's Hard Sometime To Reconcile...

Genuine.riend of mine was in town the other day. When we met for lunch, she handed me an envelop full of old photos she had found while...

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Jul 3, 20201 min read

I Can't Sleep

It's 5 o'clock in the morning and I can't sleep. In about 30 minutes my husband will be getting up to go to work. And when he asks (if he...

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Jun 24, 20202 min read

My Apologies

I referenced a reader who had contacted me and that message had inspired me to get back to writing. I referred to this reader-friend as...

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Jun 1, 20202 min read

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