A Woman In Long Term Recovery
Recovery from growing up in an alcoholic family and my substance abuse
My family has a lot of alcoholics and other addictions. I grew up learning survival skills. How to survive with alcoholism. When I was 24, married with two children, I was using those skills in my alcoholic marriage and they weren't working.
We had a baby diagnosed with sudden infant death syndrome. The medical people said he could die at any time. He could stop breathing up until he was about 2.5 years. I believed that I had to keep our baby alive and I had to focus on our baby and couldn't focus on his dad too.
As a last-ditch effort before leaving my husband, we saw a marriage counselor and she told us, "I can't help you! As long as there is an alcohol and drug problem it is like pounding your head against the wall. We will not get anywhere!"
She dismissed us giving us a meeting list for a family program, a program for the alcoholic, and the contact information of an assessor to determine whether treatment or not.
A few days later, I started that family program and have been going ever since. That was September 24, 1978. In this program I was able to focus on me and not on the alcoholics in my life. I was asked to have an assessment when I attended a treatment program for family members.
The assessor told me that I could feel free to attend the meetings for the alcoholic. After two years on September 26, 1980, I started the program for the alcoholic. I have been attending that program ever since. I have "a daily reprieve that is contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition".
Recovery Rap or Spoken Word
Another rap, no crap,
about recovery, I rap
My man, he is the one,
like no other, he won
Come along now, brother
And ride along with this sister
You can do it like him
Give it a try to swim
In sober waters
Like the otters
The very best way to be
Is to be in recovery
~
A champion without strife
Loving and living the life
Yes, alcohol not ever
No drugs, no not never
He would not do that to you
To himself or to me Boo
Take it from me
The best way to be
Is in recovery.
~
Take it from me
And you will see
All the peace and serenity
You can ever want and glee
Take it from me
It is the best
Better than all the rest
Let’s put this to the test
And you will see
The very best way to be
Is to be in recovery
About the Creator
Denise E Lindquist
Retired, working part-time as a Native American culture consultant. I have an MSE, and an ABD. I write on Vocal, and Facebook. Poetry, non-fiction mostly, and working on fiction. Wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.
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