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Old 03-05-2012, 10:07 AM
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LifeRecovery
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I lived with two ACA members growing up, and though I attend some AA meetings they are open only.

I am in recovery from an eating disorder however.

The reason I am writing is that I am experiencing similar exhaustion. I talked with my therapist about it and she let me see that healing is hard work and exhausting. We are making new brain pathways, and at least for me I am trying to get out of the crazy hamster wheel of do, do, do that in my codependant ways I am so familiar with. I imagine it like my framwork/structure being tilted like the leaning tower of Pisa, and me tearing that down and building it again. I know that is good for me, but to let go of stuff that I have grown up with can be anxiety provoking, and building a healthy framework takes a lot too.

It helped me to see that maybe for me this is part of the process.
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