Posted on July 28, 2019
by Nicole V
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The Two Selves: My Work This post is dedicated to helping me work through an understanding I have been studying. I have a long and arduous relationship to other people’s depression and if I don’t go towards it to understand it then there will… Continue Reading “Death in Recovery Part 3: Other’s Depression”
Category: anger, Bulimia, Coming of Age, Drugs/Narcotics, entitlement, Forgiveness, Nowhere Man, opiates, Prescription pills, Treatment, VictimTags: aa, accountable, Addiction, Afterlife, Anxiety, Binge Disorder, ca, california, care, character defects, Child, clean, clean and sober, Codependency, Codependent Relationships, Control, Death, Depression, Eating Disorder, Evolution, false self, family, feeling, feelings, Food disorder, Friendship, Guilt, heart, honesty, lonely, lonesome, love, Marijuana, mind, na, odaat, Patterns, personal choice, Personal Journey, Photo Restoration, Photography, recover, Recovery, red flags, Relationships, resentment, Self Care, Self Harm, Self Love, Shame, soberaf, sobriety, Sonoma County, Trauma, treatment, truth, victim, we do recover
Posted on April 29, 2019
by Nicole V
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Over Easter weekend I photographed my family and our kids spending time together. My grandmother treated us all to a 4 night stay in Bodega Bay, California. We rented a beach house next to a golf course and every person who attended brought a… Continue Reading “Celebrating Family: A photoshoot”
Category: adobe, Bulimia, Coming of Age, Forgiveness, opiates, photoshop, SobrietyTags: 10 years, addict, Addiction, Afterlife, alcohol, Alcoholism, bay, beach, beach house, Bodega Bay, Bulimia, canon, canon rebel, clean and sober, coast, coastal, Control, Death, drug, drug addict, drug addiction, drugs, easter, Eating Disorder, editing, Evolution, family, Food disorder, Friendship, love, memories, Motherhood, ocean, Personal Journey, Photo Restoration, Photography, Recovery, Relationships, Self Care, Self Love, sobriety, Sonoma Coastline, Sonoma County, we do recover
Posted on April 14, 2019
by Nicole V
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A few months ago a friend I love died. Then two months later my buddy put his dog down. And two days after that another friend died suddenly. All three of these deaths were impactful and I felt the need to process here on… Continue Reading “Death In Recovery: Three Deaths & Three Lessons, Part 1”
Category: Bulimia, Drugs/Narcotics, SobrietyTags: addict, Addiction, Afterlife, Binge Disorder, birth, Bulimia, Bulimic, clean and sober, Death, drug addict, drug addiction, Eating Disorder, Evolution, Friendship, love, Motherhood, natural disaster, odaat, Personal Journey, prison, Recovery, Relationships, Self Care, Self Love, soberaf, sobriety, we do recover, wildfire
Posted on March 22, 2019
by Nicole V
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If you are an addict struggling with imagining what it would take to get clean, you’ve probably heard people talking about hitting rock bottom. I wanted to share with you the day that I consider to be my rock bottom because it was the… Continue Reading “10 Years Ago: This ‘ol Opiate Addict’s Rock Bottom”
Category: 12 Steps, Bulimia, Coming of Age, cs5711, Drugs/Narcotics, Forgiveness, opiates, Sobriety, TreatmentTags: 10 years, 12 steps, 4th step, Addiction, alcohol, Alcoholism, clean and sober, Codependency, Codependent Relationships, Depression, drug addict, drug addiction, Eating Disorder, fear, IV drugs, Personal Journey, Recovery, Relationships, resentment, Self Care, Self Harm, Self Love, soberaf, sobriety, Sobriety Birthday, Suicide, treatment
