"And We Have Ceased Fighting Anything Or Anyone…"

As I approach my 56th birthday, I took Socrates’ sage advice to examine my life, my journey since that monumental day of turning a half century old – 50.

I created a visual, linear reflection with photos, recalling where I’ve been up to now.

Embracing 50: Wanting Freedom From Emotional & Cognitive Suffering

Embracing 50: Decoding My Diagnosis: Navigating Mental Health Challenges

Embracing 50: Why I’m Ditching Underwire Bras For Good

Reflections on Turning 51: What A Wild Year

Turning 52 During The COVID Pandemic: A Personal Journey

From Anxiety To Sobriety: My Life Journey From 52 – 56

It’s been three years since my proper mental health diagnoses of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) & Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD).

It’s been 630 days, one day at a time, since I stopped drinking and accepted, once and for all, I am an alcoholic.

This in-depth reflection revealed how I am so much more than those challenges that resulted from my years of untreated alcoholism and misdiagnosed mental health struggles.

As I continue on this healing path towards the mature woman I want to become… time, distance and a continued life well-lived will be on the front burner, rather than the past struggles I grappled with each and every day.

I realize this journey by remaining sober, the 12-Step way, one day at a day; along with whittling away at my BPD & HPD symptoms so that they all but disappear.

I will finally be free.

S, 🌻