• Forgiveness Is Optional. Boundaries Are Nonnegotiable.

    Somewhere along the way, forgiveness got sold like a moral subscription you’re supposed to renew forever. Miss a payment and suddenly you’re resentful, stuck, bitter, unhealed, spiritually delinquent, whatever word makes other people more comfortable with your pain. My secular take from the recovery trenches goes like this: Forgiveness is optional. You can do it.…

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  • Who’s Your Daddy?

    Who’s Your Daddy?

    There’s a special kind of whiplash that happens when your life is already on fire, you drag yourself into a 12-step room, and people start pointing you toward God like that’s the easy part. I knew I needed help.I knew my best thinking had done plenty of damage.I also knew I did not believe in…

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  • “Knock Knock. Who’s There? Not God.”

    I was sitting in a meeting recently, listening to someone talk about their “God Can.” Whenever life hands them something too heavy, too messy, too painful, they toss it in the can and let God deal with it. I understand the appeal. It sounds clean. Reassuring. Efficient. A spiritual drop box for all the things…

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  • Why Pink Cloud Comics?

    Pink Cloud Comics started as doodles in rehab. That was not some grand creative breakthrough. It was one of the only things keeping me sane while I sat in rooms full of strangers trying not to crawl out of my own skin. I drew because talking helped some, but drawing helped more. It gave my…

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If your path honors human dignity and does no harm, there is room on this cloud.