by Jennifer Leigh | Aug 12, 2019 | Recovery |
Looking back over the last eight years, there are things I wish I had known before I started this journey. Here are five of them, listed in no particular order. I wish I had known the full extent of the medical communities ignorance about benzodiazepines. Had I... 
by Jennifer Leigh | Jul 21, 2019 | Recovery |
The mornings from hell. Nevermind that my sleep was so incredibly screwed up. My insomnia was child’s play in comparison to the gruesome torture that awaited me when I woke up from whatever amount of sleep my damaged nervous system allowed me. Mornings were a... 
by Jennifer Leigh | Jun 23, 2019 | Recovery |
Eight years free! Sunday, June 23, I celebrated eight glorious years of being benzo free. What a wonderful feeling to have that much distance away from the little pill that slowly destroyed my brain and body. Life is incredibly good these days! I am in much better... 
by Jennifer Leigh | Jun 17, 2019 | Recovery |
Monday, June 17th Today is the beginning of the Acceptance Workshop. It will for four weeks. You’ll find coursework on my benzowithdrawalhelp.com website Mondays-Fridays. You can read whenever it is best for you. I’ll go live Monday through Thursdays at 10... 
by Jennifer Leigh | May 20, 2019 | Recovery |
“This is a new pattern.” Every week I receive a phone call from someone in the benzo community who is experiencing a change in their usual symptom pattern and they are concerned. They want to know what it means—is healing close at hand, or are they falling... 
by Jennifer Leigh | Mar 25, 2019 | Recovery |
The Garden (Click here if you’d like to listen to Crosby Still Nash and Young’s “Woodstock” while you read.) I remember Woodstock. Some of you are far too young to have it impact your life as it did us “older folks,” but perhaps you...