It's Going To Be Ok

Here's what's been happening the past week or so since I started just posting step-chat meetings. I've been feeling a little stressed. A family member is facing homelessness. A family member is in hospital after a bad fall off a roof. A family member is missing. These very human issues are stacked up with all the usual issues which are happening all the time.

The issues which happen all the time include addiction in the family, family members jailed, family members homeless, in poverty, and with mental health problems. These new issues pose more serious problems to my own mental health. I have practically been worried sick. I have never been sober and making calm rational decisions before. Usually when I feel the stress building up it's flight for me.

I wake up in the morning as usual and then all these troubles come flooding back and I just get a lump in my throat like my heart is right there and that's where I've been starting out my day.

(I had been worried about my son before all of this and I'm just so grateful that I've got him here at home with me because I wouldn't like to also be worried about him as well.)

Here's the thing, though, I have no control over all of these things which are happening. I would normally just go and drink, drug or fall into other unhealthy Lisa ways. Now I'm with the mantra~ It's going to be ok. It's going to be ok. It's going to be ok.

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