Hey everyone, my name’s Briyenna, but you can call me Bri (like the cheese). I wanted to share a little bit about my background, specifically my struggles with alcoholism and mental health issues, and how they’ve shaped my journey in finding a career path...
In my early days of recovery, people would say things like, “Take the cotton out of your ears and put it in your mouth.” I had no clue what the heck they were talking about at the time. Now I know they were basically telling me to shut up and listen. I did what they...
I found my 2 best friends in recovery… ~ God & Diane ~ I believe that not having a real sense of self-worth was the catalyst of the inevitable “bad things” happening to me. Hmmm, bad things didn’t “happen”- I allowed them because I never valued myself enough to...
There’s something surreal about watching your youngest kid go off to college. My heart is full of conflicting emotions. The pride I feel is overwhelming, but there’s also this undercurrent of something deeper, something more complicated to describe. It’s not sadness,...
The other day, I was browsing my LinkedIn feed and came across an illustration that caught my eye. There were three glass jars, all the same size. Each jar had a black ball inside. The first jar’s ball was big enough to occupy the whole jar. The second...
