by Lisa Kohn | Mar 20, 2023 | Recovery
This is what I texted to a dearest friend (one of the many I text with every morning). This is what I wish for them, for me, for you. May the sun shine on you today with much love and beauty and joy and lightness. I am showing up for me and feeling the feelings – the...
by Lisa Kohn | Feb 20, 2023 | Recovery
Yesterday was a day after a night when my sleep wasn’t enough. As I’ve said here, I really feel that. It f—s with me physically, mentally, emotionally, psychically…you name it-ally. I reached out to a few friends, because one of the mentally effects was that I...
by Lisa Kohn | Jan 17, 2023 | Recovery
For years I could tell you about my “editor.” This was the voice that instantaneously jumped in to critique and criticize whatever I had just done or said. I’d talk about the trauma in my childhood, and I could hear my editor voice shouting over all else. “It wasn’t...
by Lisa Kohn | Jan 9, 2023 | Recovery
“In a single moment – with a single choice – your entire life can be different.” Thank you @jamilareddy for this thought (check out their post). “You can start over. You can end that pattern. You can transform that habit.” I know this, and I needed to hear it again. I...
by Lisa Kohn | Dec 19, 2022 | Recovery
Over ten years ago I had a bout of insomnia that knocked me to my knees. Actually, that felled me to my face. I don’t need to go into details, but I was hurting. I remember saying to my therapist, who told me about her two-year bout of insomnia, “I can’t do this for...
by Lisa Kohn | Nov 7, 2022 | Recovery, Resilience
I was on a zoom with another Second Gen (those of us born and/or raised in a cult or extremist group). He was telling us how he was struggling. How something had happened in his cult-activist network, and that it kicked up shit. That he was having a hard time getting...
