Voices on Addiction: A Review of The Recovering
As recovering addicts, we must love ourselves back to the source, love our shameful bits and decimations and not just our reconciliations and resurrections.
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Kerry Neville
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Kerry Neville is the author of the short fiction collection, Necessary Lies, and the forthcoming collection, Remember to Forget Me. Her fiction and essays can be found at The Gettysburg Review, Epoch, TriQuarterly, Arts and Letters, The Huffington Post, The Fix, and The Establishment, among others. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia College and State University.
Voices on Addiction: Shame Is a Treble Hook
Shame is a treble hook that tells me that 1) I not only fail but am a failure, that 2) I not only damage people but I am damaged, and that 3) I not only lie but I am a lie.