Monthly Archives: August 2011

Caring, Care-taking, Enabling: Which Is Which?

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Nancy

In all my friendships over the years I have tried to be a caring, committed friend. It wasn’t until I had been in Alanon for awhile that I began to see that sometimes what I thought of as caring was … Continue reading →

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Failure: What Is That, Anyway?

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Nancy

Writing about success last week started me thinking about failure. For years after each of my two marriages collapsed, I felt shame because of what I perceived as my failure. I no longer feel shame, and I don’t think I … Continue reading →

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Success: What It Means To Me

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Nancy

After I started blogging for the Huffington Post, several friends wrote to congratulate me on my success. Which made me start thinking about what ‘success’ means to me. And I was kind of surprised. I wanted to demur, and not … Continue reading →

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Healing2

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Nancy

A young friend of mine was talking to me about Melody Beattie, and that she found her work on co-dependence very interesting, especially her list of co-dependent characteristics. That interested me as well, so I asked her to email the … Continue reading →

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Healing: When We Feel Helpless

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Nancy

I always blog in the morning on Mondays, but today I forgot. My grandson has been wheezing in an odd sort of way, has been given steroids twice, but is still wheezing. Question this AM: is it a tumor or … Continue reading →