Jessica Dueñas took us inside a rehabilitation centre for five weeks. For those five weeks, she was safe from the temptations of her own mind and the pressures of life. When thinking of our own lives, the question in our open thread this week is this:
WHERE IS YOUR SAFE SPACE?
It can be physical or made up. Where do you go to protect your peace and shield yourself from the world?
Ever since this time period when I was in treatment, I go into my journal, I write out a lot of what I'm feeling, all the thoughts, productive and not productive. Then I rip them up and throw them out. I have to protect myself by casting out a lot of the toxic thoughts that try to creep in that make me want to drink, so today I escape by purging the negativity out. I fight these demons daily and it gets SO hard sometimes, but I can't go back to the end of chapter 4. I can't end up flat on my back again with the world spinning above me.
Ever since this time period when I was in treatment, I go into my journal, I write out a lot of what I'm feeling, all the thoughts, productive and not productive. Then I rip them up and throw them out. I have to protect myself by casting out a lot of the toxic thoughts that try to creep in that make me want to drink, so today I escape by purging the negativity out. I fight these demons daily and it gets SO hard sometimes, but I can't go back to the end of chapter 4. I can't end up flat on my back again with the world spinning above me.