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Hi I'm Kim, I'm an alcoholic and I never thought I would get sober again. I thought my entire life I would be cursed with the raging thoughts of needing a drink, needing drinks plural. I didn't think I would be alive this long. Getting sober saved my life. The first time I got sober I couldn't even legally drink. I was twenty years old and desperate to end my life. I went on a binge drinking spree which ended up in a night I can't even fathom to think about let alone speak ab

The day your dad dies you will be seventeen years old. You will be in the middle of creating a bullet journal page for the upcoming year. You will be sitting in front of your couch and making a habit tracker page. You will use hearts as the markers for February. You will forget to fill it in as the time passes. You will be on day 13, you’ll draw a heart with a red marker and write a small number 13 in the middle of the heart. Your house will have a long hallway that connects

My father has been dead for over 4 years, 1,721 days to be exact. You would think that by now I would be better or “fixed” but in reality: the culture surrounding grief is fucked. Nobody really knows how to handle it and many people chalk it up to “I’m sorry”. Megan Devine, author of It’s OK That You’re Not OK does an amazing job of dissecting grief and showing how skewed this culture has made it. Grief is looked at as a gross tumor implanted in peoples lives when they lose s