Is there ever a good, compelling way to do this? I’m terrible at this. If anyone ever says, “tell me a little bit about yourself,” I have a panic attack. What details do you give that people will actually care about? Are those even the details they want? How do you talk about accomplishments without sounding like a jerk?

Here’s my basic, typical social media bio. Some form of this exists on my profiles:

Mom | Wife | Gen X | Living With Mental Illness | Gardener | Recovering Alcoholic | Hippie Dippie | Animal Lover | Tucson | Formerly San Francisco and the Midwest

The impetus for this blog is my recovery. It’s the hardest thing I have ever done, the hardest I’ve had to work at anything, and the thing of which I am most proud, so it takes up a lot of my thoughts and feelings. Bear with me.