Becoming Nobody Special
“I’m learning to be ordinary, Rosie.” Sarah declares this—not with sadness or anger, nor with despair or bitterness—but with a clarity rooted in truth. In the two years we’ve been working together, I’ve never heard her speak with such grounded knowing. Her dis-ease isn’t rooted in alcohol or drugs, per se, but in a fundamental belief formed in childhood: that being unique would save her from insanity and certain death. Sarah has been in recovery for almost four decades. She’s been sober and clean all these years, managing her habits and feeling pretty dang good about it! But there’s a
