About

Life as Gwen

Life is Gwen started as a blog designed to reach out to addicts who were feeling alone in the world. It has become a venue for me to share stories, thoughts and feelings with the hope someone might recognize themselves and know that there is a way out of the suffering.

Bio

They promised me “sanity”. That hasn’t happened yet, but I’m sober. Forty long years of addiction of various forms. I have been told I am depressed, I have been told I have anger issues and anxiety. All I know is I drank, and I felt better…until that stopped working.

I have been lucky in that I still have my carrier, I am close with my adult kids and family. I didn’t lose “it all”. I did suffer though. Emotional and physical trauma, loneliness and isolation to start.

Recovery isn’t easy, but it’s not as hard as being deep in addiction. That is one thing I know for sure. There are so many challenges in recovery, including confronting and dealing with the carnage my addicted self left behind. In recovery I have been able to talk about many of these things, but there really isn’t one person I tell the whole truth too and some things I tell no one.

I have learned that writing my thoughts down is healing. I am a private person sharing private things on a public forum…albeit anonymously.

This is the next step of the journey.