Many people living in one day at a time recovery know the reality of surviving stress. Often we do so by sharing the difficulties caused by stress when we share such overload with a friend, or friends, over coffee. Some of us do it in a therapist’s office. Some of us do it with our spouse. Our reality is that we need to be heard, especially when we are over-loaded. Sometimes those closest to us are not those we should share our over-load with. They are just too close to us to be able to help. Besides that we might be so wrapped up in stress we are looking for someone to blame and that might just be those who are closest to us. Our reality though is we need to be heard. Troubles shared are troubles lessened. Please do so. It helps. Peace.
