From predatory men in the chapters to women housemates with personality disorders, if you are living with a history of trauma, you will be moving into an environment that will make your life get about 100 times worse. Sure, it’s better than the streets, and maybe it’s better than being…

***Don’t dare be reserved, quiet, polite, well-groomed, and well-mannered and try to live in an Oxford House. You will not make it, at least not for long.*** You will be accused of “isolating” if you need alone time to recharge. You will be accused of showing “relapse behavior” if you…

For anyone unfamiliar with an “Oxford House,” I’ll give you a bit of info to get you started. You can do an online search and find them pretty easily. I would rather not post a bunch of their info onto my own page. Skip ahead to part 4 here. Who lives in them? Oxford…

Part 3, Part 2, Part 1 Why did you find it necessary to write about this? Because I have yet to find a site that addresses the serious issues that have plagued many of the houses, and their rules and guidelines that were established in the 1970s are still enforced as such and create more problems than they solve. But…

Part 2, Part 1 Oxford House members are encouraged to attend recovery meetings, according to the official guidelines. However, depending on the state and chapter your house is in, you will more than likely be required to attend 5 per week (for the first 30 days; 3 per week after)…

I started this project with Part 1 here. They either hate you, fear you, or both. Atheists remain the most hated and distrusted group in America, even in 2020, as the nation’s numbers of people identifying as “non-religious” continue to rise. The number of atheists has also risen, whether that’s…

For the record, I am not suicidal. I am neither a threat to myself nor a threat to others. I’ve been in the nuthouse a couple of times, so I know to be careful about making a reference to suicide like that. …

I think part of me died that day. I spent such a long time after the birth of my first child not even feeling alive anymore. I was like a ghost in some movie who was screaming at everyone she encountered, asking if they could hear her. They could not…