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I Just Want To Drink

By Kristance Harlow | August 23, 2018 |
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Now that I’m here, I really want a drink, but Alejandro won’t let me. I’m so nervous and anxious. Lost. My thoughts are circling, and I can’t stop the spiraling repetitiveness of my obsessions. I’m afraid.

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Eating Obsessions and Body Negativity

By Kristance Harlow | December 29, 2017 |
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I think I’m emotionally eating. I really need to not do that. I have to be really careful with addictions. I could very easily become an alcoholic I think. I need to be so careful to never do that.

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Sobriety Can Be Scary

By Kristance Harlow | December 22, 2017 |
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Nothing negative is happening. I mean, no big things are occurring that I should feel threatened about. This anxiety and fear is coming from someplace else. I can’t sleep. I wake up every hour and am having vivid intense dreams and nightmares. What is wrong? It isn’t easy to deal with stresses again without my…

Waving the white flag

Learning To Be Honest

By Kristance Harlow | December 19, 2017 |
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Lying so often feels like the easy way out, but I’ve been learning the hard way that honesty is the only way to face demons and beat them. To learn from the shit in life and to handle the pain of the world, to see the good things and not just the bad.

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Alcoholic and Spiraling Towards Bottom

By Kristance Harlow | October 31, 2017 |
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Angry at myself. I’ve been drinking every single day for like a week. I know why I’m doing it. Without something to confuse my sense, I don’t have to deal with this internal struggle.

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