Healthy disconnection

Old 09-18-2012, 07:07 AM
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Healthy disconnection

I've been pretty quiet lately. Part of that is the result of a healthy disconnection.

We always talk about the process of recovery.....how it's not a destination but a journey. I'm at a point in my recovery where I feel serenely disconnected from my son and his addiction. I am able to talk with him without trying to manipulate him into getting clean. I'm able to quietly state my truth without it being antagonistic. I've been able to let go to a degree I never thought possible. But the love and compassion is there.

I am enjoying the feeling of being in the moment and staying in today. I am not steeped in fear as I have been almost my entire life. I feel good physically, mentally and spiritually most of the time. My life isn't perfect but it's quite manageable and I don't feel myself spinning off the rims like I did when caught in the midst of the addiction-codependency dance.

My relationships with the other healthy people in my life have improved. People who know and love me have commented on the changes they have witnessed and say that I am very different now.

I take good care of myself and my priorities seem to be in better balance.

But (isn't there always a but) I feel somewhat disconnected from the newcomers at our meetings and here on SR. They cause me discomfort.....a recognition of who and where I was that gives me twinges of "I don't want to feel or think like that ever again".

I assume that this is part of my process and I'm just trying to go with the flow. But I do feel this disconnection that is foreign and somewhat uncomfortable. Perhaps it is a healthy disconnection called detachment? Perhaps this is the serenity that people talk about? Perhaps time is the answer, as it usually is.....I'll grow more comfortable being able to stand back as an observer rather than a participant in the lives that move around me and simply love without becoming enmeshed or judging.

Today is a good day.

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Old 09-18-2012, 07:27 AM
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Dear KE, your wisdom, honesty, compassion and undying love for the family members of our A's is unquestionable. Your precious, loving spirit and wisdom is so apparent in everything you say to us all here at SR. I am so happy you are achieving your serenity and your peace. You are a rock to so many of us here in the posse.
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Old 09-18-2012, 07:42 AM
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You are a beacon of light and hope, KE. Selfishly, I hope you don't venture too far away...but understand if you do. I believe it's called "growth". ((((Hugs))))
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Old 09-18-2012, 08:08 AM
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But (isn't there always a but) I feel somewhat disconnected from the newcomers at our meetings and here on SR. They cause me discomfort.....a recognition of who and where I was that gives me twinges of "I don't want to feel or think like that ever again".
I used to be very involved in online pregnancy loss communities after my baby died years ago. But after so many years of working on my healing, I felt that disconnect too, and passed the groups off. It is life, there are seasons for everything.
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Maybe it's just the hum of your radar on "Power Save!" And that would be aok!
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Old 09-19-2012, 07:43 AM
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Thank you KE. I think I am at a similar stage than you and have had the same disconnected feelings with newcomers. I sometimes feel like I just want to shake them into a stage that took me years to achieve.

After a couple of days of retrospection, I realised that they remind me of a difficult time in my life, a time I would rather forget about. I am not able to give the support a newcomer deserves and have decided to rather withdraw from posting for a while. Your post put my feelings clearly into words.
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