Getting to Know Me

I thought that since I'm just starting this blog, I should say a few things about myself, to help my readers understand me better.

First, although I've become an Athiest and am secure and immensely relieved with that choice, it has not "fixed" the problems in my life, or erased the damage done by years of religious indoctrination.

Frankly, I'm a mess right now.

I have Type I Bipolar Disorder, and have been battling long, severe depressive episodes for the last several years. I have lived through a lot of difficult things (including losing my mother to cancer at the age of 14 and remaining in an abusive, painful marriage for 14 years), and have not come out unscathed. I am Humpty-Dumpty, I've fallen off the wall, and to be brutally honest, I am not optimistic about the chances of putting all the pieces together again.

What I am focusing on right now is accepting myself as I am, where I am, and being gentle with myself. I am also trying to see the good in life, wherever I can find it, rather than constantly focus on the negatives.

It is my hope that writing this blog will help me to get some of my "spiritual baggage" out in the open, and that maybe, some of the things I write will help other people who have struggled, or are still struggling, with religious oppression or its aftermath.

If you are reading this, then welcome -- may you find peace and freedom from supernatural religion and all its slings and arrows.