Recovery Helps Me Heal My Core Being: Active Addiction as False Narcissism

June 22, 2015 by B Rae Perryman

Lucky for me, recovery helps me heal my core being. I am an over comer of childhood trauma. I am an adult domestic violence survivor. I have a severe mental illness. I have been to jail. And I wear the label of “addict”. But I have been consistently stable for some time, and I have come to believe there is nothing inherently wrong with me.

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It is Difficult to Live Without Shame

May 11, 2015 by B Rae Perryman

But, if I can live two years without drugs or alcohol, we can break the stigma. We can be heroes and erase shame. We can stand up, tell our stories, choose not to be anonymous, and refuse to be silent.

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