Ie not drinking and drugs but gambling was my great escape. When you say not validated do you mean not being able to express your feelings and who you are? My great gripe was about not having mentors or parental support or anything and having to go through life or sometimes stumbling through on my own. In recovery I gave it all to God, all of it, He can be my support, he can be someone who I can express my feelings to when there has been nothing else. He can be my Heavenly Father. It wasn’t instant Liz and there r still lots of challenges as you know, I still have a nicotine addiction, but things have slowly changed in me, transformation from within. And it’s a journey. You are not weak Liz and in Him comes our strength.
