The Adventures of ReadingGrrl

Category: Addiction

  • Numb: deprive of feeling or responsiveness

    Numb: deprive of feeling or responsiveness

    I’m trying to get excited for things, holidays, etc but I often find myself numb. This will be the 2nd holiday season we have had without our daughter and it’s just so hard. I keep seeing things I know she would like or thinking about trips we know she would love to be a part…

  • Chaos:Complete Disorder and Confusion

    Chaos surrounds addicts and I’ve come to believe that those of us who love them or have been around a lot of people addicted to different substances become addicted to the drama and chaos. It’s what we know and we become comfortable there in a twisted way. I never realized how much it effected me…

  • Grief – Deep sorrow, especially caused by a loved ones death

    Grief – Deep sorrow, especially caused by a loved ones death

    I can’t very well write about the day of the dead and not mention grief now can I? Things have been hard this past year. We lost my step-daughter to fentanyl last September, she was twenty. Grief takes many twists and turns and doesn’t ever look the way you think it will. I noticed that…