Life working in progress
“Hi I’m Lori and I used to be a glorious mess. Now I’m a work in progress.” This is how I would introduce myself if there was a recovery group for adults dealing with the consequences of the dumb decisions they made in their teenage years. But who doesn't have issues in life? I’m no longer a teenager, but I still remember those years as a teenager; continually battling other people's expectations, desperate to be my own person but not knowing how to make good decisions on my own, not finding my ‘people’ and feeling the pressure to be like others in order to have some ‘people’, seeing the emotional pain that others were experiencing at the hands of the ‘cool kids’ and not being able to fix it, feeling like no-one really wanted to listen to ME. Even though I know how it felt to lose a sibling to suicide and struggle with depression as I went through that myself. My parents’ approach to parenting (which I thought was normal at the time) was based on not telling the truth about my ...