Life Scripts - Blogs & Blog Posts

Overcoming Labels of Fear by Irene Watson on Nov 6, 2009Marie Curie once said, “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” As recovering codependents, alcoholics, or drug addicts, we know about fear, and we know that when people fear us, they reject us. Our...

Secrets - The Skeletons in Our Closets by Irene Watson on Nov 4, 2009In my last post, I talked about researching the codependency, addictions, and dysfunction in our family trees. I also warned that sometimes our older relatives will not want to share information with us. Every family has its secrets, its skeletons...

Recovery and Your Family Tree by Irene Watson on Nov 2, 2009What does genealogy and family history have to do with recovery? Everything. Our family tree has the roots of our codependency, alcoholism, or addictions in it. Just as we get our genes from our ancestors, we get our dysfunctional behaviors,...

Loving Ourselves by Irene Watson on Oct 30, 2009It is easy to forget to love ourselves. It’s easy to forget to nurture ourselves. It’s easy to forget that if we don’t take care of ourselves, we won’t be able to take care of anyone else. It’s also easy...

Struggling with Feelings by Irene Watson on Oct 28, 2009Feelings are funny things. Everything in a day may have seemed to go perfectly fine, but then we find ourselves feeling down, or crabby in the evening. Just the same, we might feel ourselves being energetic or exuberant and not...

Learning to Wait by Irene Watson on Oct 26, 2009Learning to wait can be difficult, especially when it is for something we feel we desperately want or need. In our modern, high-tech world, we have learned to be impatient, to expect things immediately. When we are told we have...

Estrangement from Unhealthy People by Irene Watson on Oct 23, 2009Estrangement can be a blessing. In my last two postings, I talked about reasons for estrangement and how to recover from the pain that goes with it. At the same time, estrangement from someone may end up to be the...