Guess what? Your not a Burden.
In counseling this last week I had a pretty big realisation. Let me give you some context. One of the biggest things I've become aware of is the damage i had caused on those people i love, due to my own unwellness and brokenness, having no boundaries and no way of being able to have and process my emotions which a lot of my life would drive me, like how a steam train works, you control the speed and force by how much fuel you feed it and if you want to slow down you need to plan to stop putting coal on the fire and it will in a sense ‘cool down’ enough to slow. I have been a person where the ‘coal’ was everything that triggered me and it was almost like a huge bucket would dump on the fire and make it out of control. That's pretty much how i lived, a runaway steam train with no coal controller (hopefully this metaphor makes sense) So in this and in my recovery and i think it's something people don’t realise what happens is that as we heal and grow and recover (or discove...