I look forward to continuing to brave forward with all of you hidden heroes on this journey that we would have never chosen but yet we find ourselves here for such a time as this. There is no way around…
Beautifully Broken Part 5: Awareness 2024
“I didn’t cause it, I can’t control it, I can’t cure it” Al-Anon’s 3C’s. These were the words I was introduced to in June of 2022. But there is there is a 4th C not as well known: “I don’t…
Beautifully Broken Part 4: The Impact 2023
The addiction has taken a total of nearly 17 years-the entirety of our marriage. Someone recently asked me how many years I have been married. I honestly could not come up with it. I was stuck on year 14. It…
Beautifully Broken Part 3: The Wait 2022
Looking back to the very first discovery, I was so innocent, naïve, and pure the day I wrote that reflection on November 2, 2019. I did not know the course ahead of me, and I did not know this was…
Beautifully Broken Part 2: The Search 2021
So from June 2021-July 2022 I set about doing what I have always done. I asked the Lord for answers. I also began to read voraciously and read over 30 books trying to make sense of the uncovered decade plus…
Beautifully Broken Part 1: The Discovery 2020
In June of 2019, I asked my husband, who I will refer to as H, to go to counseling to deal with some anger management issues that were coming out at our son who was 7 years old at the…