Tri-County Peer Recovery Coaches

Arnie... Hope life is treating you well ❤️‍🩹 Your absence made me realize that I never really needed you like I thought I did. No child should have to ask their own Dad to love them..to notice them..when I cried he would hang up on me..I could never talk to my Dad. Never not once did he ever tell me it was okay when someone hurt me. He would hang up on me. My crying to my Dad looking for comfort made him extremely irritated when I would cry.
I forgave you a while ago..even if you aren't sorry old man.

Well said.

🌾🌳🌾

She is part of a solution now 🤟

I really had no idea 😨

I grew up in an environment that believed that EVERYONE was good. And if they weren’t good, you can love them back to life to be good people. (My parents adopted 23 kids & most of them were troubled lol)

Then I went into ministry/business in 2012 and O M G.
Where is my Netflix series because who is talking about the ABUSE that comes from people you’re trying to love? I remember we gave a car away and then being dragged online by the very couple we helped.
I remember buying groceries every week for a family and then 2 days later, they also dragged us.
I remember never taking a salary from our church (took my husband 5 years to take a salary) and meanwhile, we were getting accused of stealing because we travel and like nice things.
I remember getting dragged online about lies and fake stories about our family.
I remember people who I called my friends ghosting me when I was going through a hard time instead of reaching out.

The list goes on.
It’s safe to say that helping people became TRIGGERING for me.

Talk about being traumatized by people.

I used to get anxiety going to speaking engagements.. because of people.

I used to be so wide open & everyone was my bestie. 🤣🙄

What did I learn?

Humans will human and you can’t put your hope in them or even expect that they will be good to you.
You gotta take people for who they are and believe that not everyone has the right heart.

I needed to go through what I went through. It made me stronger, got rid of pretend friends and it taught me God works out everything for my good.

I did have to grieve that whole “believing the best in people.” I’m a little slower to give people titles and that’s ok.

Cheers for growth. 🤍

People can't handle your pain. But God can.

Not everyone earns the right to hear your story.

Accurate

..still do

Honest grief