Virgin Islands Vacation Day Five - Patience and Freedom from "Stinky Donkey Dip" Days

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. ~ Aristotle We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. Fear of people and of economic (and housing) insecurity will leave us. ~ First and Tenth Promise of the 12 Steps I am so excited! After so many years of living with my parents, I am finally moving out and I would not be able to be trusted to do this successfully if I was not living in recovery. In the past, I have lived on my own or with roommates while I attended college and the situation always spiraled out of control after a while. Hospitalizations, extreme loneliness and neediness, relapses into disordered behavior would always happen and after coming home from college, I worked hard on my recovery. Unfortunately, I experienced more relapses; fortunately, those relapses pushed me to work even harder and to take two rounds of DBT classes . Now that I have been practicing using my DBT skills on a regular basis for several years now, have a strong support