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When Will I Start Loving Me?15 comments

Fiona wrote 8 months ago: “If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and lo … more →

Tags: personal responsibility, recovery, Self-Care, e-stranged, family estrangement, family rifts, Fiona McColl, healing, Letting Go

Sustainability128 comments

Fiona wrote 9 months ago: “We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life b … more →

Tags: personal responsibility, recovery, Self-Care, e-stranged, family estrangement, family rifts, Fiona McColl, healing, Letting Go

Time Out9 comments

Fiona wrote 9 months ago: Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it … more →

Tags: personal responsibility, recovery, Self-Care, e-stranged, family estrangement, family rifts, Fiona McColl, healing, Personal Responsibility

Divvy Up23 comments

Fiona wrote 9 months ago: “Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, betwe … more →

Tags: Blame, personal responsibility, recovery, Victimization, e-stranged, family estrangement, family rifts, Fiona McColl, healing

Love and Vulnerability118 comments

Fiona wrote 9 months ago: “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. … more →

Tags: Love, e-stranged, family estrangement, family rifts, Fiona McColl, healing, Love, recovery, Self Protection

Does Love Endure Estrangement?70 comments

Fiona wrote 9 months ago: [polldaddy poll=6431414] I recognize that many people are estranged from more than one person, and t … more →

Tags: Love, e-stranged, family estrangement, family rifts, Fiona McColl, Love, Poll

Fear15 comments

Fiona wrote 9 months ago: Fear. It creates anger and selfishness. They sit together, supporting each other, as inseparable as … more →

Tags: recovery, Self-Care, e-stranged, family estrangement, family rifts, Fear, Fiona McColl, healing, recovery

Estrangement and The Mean World Syndrome32 comments

Fiona wrote 9 months ago:  In a violent and threatening world we are readier to fear ‘others’. We mistrust more, and polarize … more →

Tags: Anxiety, Blame, recovery, Self-Care, Victimization, David Ropeik, e-stranged, estrangement, family estrangement

Codependency and Estrangement - Trust Your Struggle11 comments

Fiona wrote 9 months ago: “Part of the problem with the word ‘disabilities’ is that it immediately suggests an ina … more →

Tags: Reaction, Self-Care, recovery, personal responsibility, family estrangement, estrangement, e-stranged, Patterns, responsibility

Triggered19 comments

Fiona wrote 10 months ago: “You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun”  ― Fiona Apple I’ve been sifting through commen … more →

Tags: Reaction, Self-Care, recovery, personal responsibility, family estrangement, e-stranged, Patterns, responsibility, Self Care

Co-Dependency and Detachment61 comments

Fiona wrote 10 months ago: The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along in the st … more →

Tags: Reaction, Self-Care, recovery, personal responsibility, Detachment, family estrangement, e-stranged, Patterns, responsibility

Co-Dependency and Reaction50 comments

Fiona wrote 10 months ago: “You have the ability to choose your reactions.”  ― Steve Maraboli One of the things about people wh … more →

Tags: Reaction, Self-Care, recovery, Detachment, family estrangement, e-stranged, responsibility, Self Care, Fiona McColl

Theme of the Week - Co-dependency133 comments

Fiona wrote 10 months ago: “Furthermore, worrying about people and problems doesn’t help. It doesn’t solve problems … more →

Tags: Self-Care, recovery, Victimization, Toxic Relationships, family estrangement, e-stranged, responsibility, Self Care, Fiona McColl

Recovery Does Not Keep Time165 comments

Fiona wrote 10 months ago: “You could see she was a girl who made too much of things like every instant was a streetcar rattlin … more →

Tags: Reaction, Self-Care, recovery, family estrangement, e-stranged, Self Care, Fiona McColl, Choices, Acceptance

The Door Is Open180 comments

Fiona wrote 10 months ago: “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”  ― Virginia Woolf We’ve had a bit … more →

Tags: Reaction, Tolerance, Self-Care, recovery, Victimization, family estrangement, responsibility, Self Care, Fiona McColl

Happy Ever After57 comments

Fiona wrote 10 months ago: “I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness … “ - The Dalai Lama and yet … “We all … more →

Tags: Acceptance, Self-Care, recovery, family estrangement, responsibility, Self Care, Fiona McColl, healing, family rifts

Contortions107 comments

Fiona wrote 11 months ago: “You cannot trade the courage needed to live every moment for immunity from life’s sorrows. We … more →

Tags: Acceptance, recovery, personal responsibility, family estrangement, e-stranged, Fiona McColl, Choices, family rifts, Personal Responsibility

Calling Our Energy Home34 comments

Fiona wrote 11 months ago: “I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they need constant atte … more →

Tags: Self-Care, recovery, Detachment, family estrangement, e-stranged, Self Care, Fiona McColl, healing, family rifts

Why Letting Go Does Not Require Forgiveness139 comments

Fiona wrote 12 months ago: “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So … more →

Tags: Self-Care, recovery, Detachment, family estrangement, e-stranged, responsibility, Fiona McColl, healing, family rifts


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