The Word of the Day is NEW.

It's been awhile since I have moved to this new state and with that I've have to go on a major over-hall with having to find all new care providers. It's taken a couple years now to finally find a brand new care team that now I am actually happy with but it hasn't been easy for me. The care team I had since 2015 played a very important part in health and safety more than the last decade while my daughter and stepson have been alienated from me. Particularly my therapist I had. She did more for me than the 5 lawyers I had and was responsible for getting a meeting to happen with my daughter and putting this father and her "therapist" in check to make it happen back in 2020. She was there first person who "let" me grieve my daughter... and grieve I did. I think I spent the first 5 years with her just sobbing and crying and grieving. She was also the first person that I was able to fully process the abuse from the ex-husband. Both she my psychiatrist also fought for my rights to find housing with having a criminal record. I owe them a great deal to them for they did for me.

So, it's been challenging to say the least to have to find new professionals but it's finally come together and I've just recently started seeing a new therapist, a new psychologist, a sleep therapist and still in the waits for a EMDR therapist. Obviously, I have a lot of PTSD and related issues. One of the other things I have done that will start this week is I got a Sponsor in Parental Alienation Anonymous. It's actually a Sponsorship Pod where there is a small number of us alienated parents working the Steps together. This is the 3rd time I've tried to get a sponsor in the last 3 years and I am really hopeful this will work out time doing a Pod instead of an individual sponsor. It is really important to me to really focus on the 12 steps of PAA. I recommitted myself to doing 90 meetings in 90 days and that has been going great.

So as I start all my new healing work. I plan to incorporate that into my new blog. NEW seems to be my NEW word I guess. Even about 2 months ago I (thankfully) moved into a great new place that is filled with natural light and sun-light filled rooms. I can't even begin to tell you HOW NEEDED this move was. The difference is light night and day.

THEN, last week... I got the best news ever... and THIS is a WIN for all us alienated parents, I found out the ex has finally retired and the never believed 3 times amended divorce decrees with him trying to eliminate me from ever receiving a penny of his pension... WENT THROUGH! I couldn't believe it! I was last told that I wasn't getting anything and it was all going to his first wife and honestly, I had just given up on anything being legally done by this family court because everything was amended beyond amended and these zero legal language in over a decade of court documents and I just never believed I would ever get get a dime... so I WAS VERY EXCITED to see I was getting something. Even by federal standards, they consider the amount too small to withhold any taxes, BUT to ME $170.00 a month for the rest of life is a shitload of money to me!