{"id":4175,"date":"2016-09-16T13:04:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T17:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healwritenow.com\/?p=4175"},"modified":"2016-09-16T13:04:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T17:04:24","slug":"guess-made-top-20-recovery-blogs-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healwritenow.com\/guess-made-top-20-recovery-blogs-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess Who Made the Top 20 Recovery Blogs of 2016?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got my social security statement in the mail yesterday. Not pretty. Income went up ad down and down some more.<\/p>\n<p>I became a stay-at-home mother, by choice. Down.<\/p>\n<p>I went through divorce (also a choice). It opposite of soared.<\/p>\n<p>Activism is not usually lucrative. Writing is not normally well-paying.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m freakin rich and will staple this statement to my statement.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not about the INCOME. It&#8217;s about the OUTREACH.<\/p>\n<p>How I get paid is in bonus moments. Like having someone share or email or feel less alone. Like making the\u00a0this list of <a href=\"http:\/\/Got my social security statement in the mail yesterday. It was NOT pretty. Income dropped as I became a stay-at-home mother, by choice. And then, it dropped even more, when I went through divorce (also a choice). It climbed and dropped and climbed and dropped. Activism is not usually lucrative. Writing is not normally well-paying. It&#039;s not about the INCOME it&#039;s about the OUTREACH. I&#039;m HONORED to be in this list of top 20 recovery blogs. If anyone feels less alone, more spoken with or to or for, that&#039;s what this is about. Some of the self-promotion part feels icky to me and arrogant and awkward. But in my 40&#039;s, I realized I was still looking and seeking and hoping for some regular woman in a real life to be talking and writing and addressing adult life and love and parenting after trauma. Even though I wasn&#039;t willing to do it myself. So, during a love affair with a guy in all in all sorts of crisis, I considered cashing out a chunk of my 401K to bail him out of a bind. And I did help him but I put the brakes on the bail out because it wasn&#039;t my place to sort through, fix or resolve and I realized I could love him without taking on his debt. And then, the MOST RADICAL REALIZATION. What if I invest in my own dreams? Why are my dreams less important than his debt? To me. Why is my creativity less worth a risk than his crisis? It felt like wild audaciousness and no money expert has ever said, &quot;Yes, spend your retirement money when pushing 50. That&#039;s brilliant.&quot; However, the good news about crisis (because there are some upsides) is that I started worrying about retirement at 23 because I was afraid of being old and homeless and having no one to take care of me. So I thought, it&#039;s my life. My choices. My decisions. EVEN if bad or stupid because I&#039;m tired of waiting decades for what I need which is just open and honest conversation about real life after trauma, abuse and adversity. Maybe I can just do some of that. So I FREAKIN did. And it&#039;s been hard and expensive and I wrote over 70 articles for zero pay just to say, &quot;Survivors exist. We have lives. This is what some of us think or feel or deal with.&quot; Anyhow, this is the longest entry ever, but I found out yesterday I made it into the TOP 20 RECOVERY BLOGS for 2016. And I actually got almost emotional. The description did me in. 11) Heal Write Now For anyone who has been a victim of childhood trauma and abuse, Heal Write Now is the blog you need to follow. Having emerged from her own personal war zone at age 22, Cissy White started on her path of healing desperate for a role model\u2014someone who had been through what she had been through, recovered and was thriving. But in 1989, without the miracle of the World Wide Web, finding women like her wasn\u2019t an easy task. That is why White started Heal Write Now: to help people connect and break out of the prison of loneliness and alienation that abuse victims often find themselves in. That is THIS RIGHT HERE. It&#039;s me. It&#039;s us. And there are SO MANY OF US DOING SO MUCH and TOGETHER AND WITH AND FOR AND IN SUPPORT OF EACH OTHER. So, I&#039;m not bank account loaded when I look at my bottom line or social security projections and past. But I&#039;m so f&#039;n rich. Because we are here and we are not alone and we know that more even if only for seconds or minutes and that&#039;s Holy Full-Time WTF? I A moment of gratitude here. Take that past. Take that social security. I&#039;m stapling this llist to the form because it shows what the numbers don&#039;t. The words. The people. The community. No regrets. Worth the effort. And here are the other recovery blogs. They may speak to you or someone you love. Thanks for being here with me at Heal Write Now. https:\/\/rehabreviews.com\/20-best-recovery-blogs-2016\/\u2026\" class=\"broken_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">top 20 recovery blogs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If anyone feels less alone, more spoken with or to or for, that&#8217;s what this is about.<\/p>\n<p>The description of my site did me in.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>11) Heal Write Now<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For anyone who has been a victim of childhood trauma and abuse, Heal Write Now is the blog you need to follow. Having emerged from her own personal war zone at age 22, Cissy White started on her path of healing desperate for a role model\u2014someone who had been through what she had been through, recovered and was thriving. But in 1989, without the miracle of the World Wide Web, finding women like her wasn\u2019t an easy task. That is why White started Heal Write Now: to help people connect and break out of the prison of loneliness and alienation that abuse victims often find themselves in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s talking about this that I&#8217;m writing and this that you&#8217;re reading. This is us!<\/p>\n<p>Survivors supporting ourselves and each other.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m not bank account loaded when I look at my bottom line or social security projections but I&#8221;m good.<\/p>\n<p>A moment of gratitude here mixed with a full-fledged WTF?<\/p>\n<p>So, take that past. Take that social security.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the numbers it&#8217;s the words.<\/p>\n<p>The hearts and souls and people.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s us.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/Got my social security statement in the mail yesterday. It was NOT pretty. Income dropped as I became a stay-at-home mother, by choice. And then, it dropped even more, when I went through divorce (also a choice). It climbed and dropped and climbed and dropped. Activism is not usually lucrative. Writing is not normally well-paying. It&#039;s not about the INCOME it&#039;s about the OUTREACH. I&#039;m HONORED to be in this list of top 20 recovery blogs. If anyone feels less alone, more spoken with or to or for, that&#039;s what this is about. Some of the self-promotion part feels icky to me and arrogant and awkward. But in my 40&#039;s, I realized I was still looking and seeking and hoping for some regular woman in a real life to be talking and writing and addressing adult life and love and parenting after trauma. Even though I wasn&#039;t willing to do it myself. So, during a love affair with a guy in all in all sorts of crisis, I considered cashing out a chunk of my 401K to bail him out of a bind. And I did help him but I put the brakes on the bail out because it wasn&#039;t my place to sort through, fix or resolve and I realized I could love him without taking on his debt. And then, the MOST RADICAL REALIZATION. What if I invest in my own dreams? Why are my dreams less important than his debt? To me. Why is my creativity less worth a risk than his crisis? It felt like wild audaciousness and no money expert has ever said, &quot;Yes, spend your retirement money when pushing 50. That&#039;s brilliant.&quot; However, the good news about crisis (because there are some upsides) is that I started worrying about retirement at 23 because I was afraid of being old and homeless and having no one to take care of me. So I thought, it&#039;s my life. My choices. My decisions. EVEN if bad or stupid because I&#039;m tired of waiting decades for what I need which is just open and honest conversation about real life after trauma, abuse and adversity. Maybe I can just do some of that. So I FREAKIN did. And it&#039;s been hard and expensive and I wrote over 70 articles for zero pay just to say, &quot;Survivors exist. We have lives. This is what some of us think or feel or deal with.&quot; Anyhow, this is the longest entry ever, but I found out yesterday I made it into the TOP 20 RECOVERY BLOGS for 2016. And I actually got almost emotional. The description did me in. 11) Heal Write Now For anyone who has been a victim of childhood trauma and abuse, Heal Write Now is the blog you need to follow. Having emerged from her own personal war zone at age 22, Cissy White started on her path of healing desperate for a role model\u2014someone who had been through what she had been through, recovered and was thriving. But in 1989, without the miracle of the World Wide Web, finding women like her wasn\u2019t an easy task. That is why White started Heal Write Now: to help people connect and break out of the prison of loneliness and alienation that abuse victims often find themselves in. That is THIS RIGHT HERE. It&#039;s me. It&#039;s us. And there are SO MANY OF US DOING SO MUCH and TOGETHER AND WITH AND FOR AND IN SUPPORT OF EACH OTHER. So, I&#039;m not bank account loaded when I look at my bottom line or social security projections and past. But I&#039;m so f&#039;n rich. Because we are here and we are not alone and we know that more even if only for seconds or minutes and that&#039;s Holy Full-Time WTF? I A moment of gratitude here. Take that past. Take that social security. I&#039;m stapling this llist to the form because it shows what the numbers don&#039;t. The words. The people. The community. No regrets. Worth the effort. And here are the other recovery blogs. They may speak to you or someone you love. Thanks for being here with me at Heal Write Now. https:\/\/rehabreviews.com\/20-best-recovery-blogs-2016\/\u2026\" class=\"broken_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">article again<\/a> so you can go visit every other recovery blog for you or someone you know or love or to make some bloggers day.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for being here with me at Heal Write Now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got my social security statement in the mail yesterday. Not pretty. Income went up ad down and down some more. I became a stay-at-home mother, by choice. Down. I went through divorce (also a choice). It opposite of soared. Activism is not usually lucrative. Writing is not normally well-paying. 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