by jokomom | Oct 20, 2024 | Hard Days, Joy, Parenting, Sobriety
Happy Sad Anniversary. And what a year it has been. We have seen some shit. Rounding a year since this sad anniversary, I’ve been taking stock of what has transpired and been -frankly- so impressed we survived it. Marking time as the years pass, as your kids,...
by jokomom | Nov 9, 2023 | Hard Days, Thoughts
My first husband passed away in September of this year. My indirect post here spoke of some of that impact. But I realized this story wasn’t properly told. And grief, being something we will all have to deal with in some regard eventually, seemed to require...
by jokomom | Nov 5, 2023 | Hard Days, Joy, Parenting, Sobriety, Thoughts
Someone special passed away recently. Not having seen them for about 18 years didn’t diminish the shock and the pain. Grief is always surprising, the way it ebbs and flows and hits in different ways, distinct only to the person impacted. The sadness that...
by jokomom | Sep 23, 2023 | Hard Days, Joy, Thoughts
My therapist dropped a whopper on my lap this last session. She knows me well enough now that she saved the hard stuff for the end of the session, and when she saw me unravelling before her eyes she said: it’s ok. We are at the end for today. You can sit with...
by jokomom | Jul 2, 2023 | Hard Days, Joy, Sobriety
There is a reason for my silence on this blog in the last few months. I guess you could say, things were getting super serious. Therapy with G was going well (see Part 1 and Part 2 for background) in that she had encouraged me on the progress made over the last year,...
by jokomom | Feb 9, 2023 | Hard Days, Joy, Sobriety
I did the thing. It was harder than I expected it would be and it took longer than it should have to do it. I am now in therapy. The call to the help line that I had been meaning to do for weeks was painful and it was increasingly harder to stay on the line through...
