Claudia Batiuk

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2022

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“Murky Water” by Claudia Batiuk

Submitted to Contest #275

I enjoy my work so much that I can say: “This is not work to me it is my passion and calling and it seems like I play all day.” Nobody at my jobs, knows until this day, how much I have struggled in my past. I was given no tools, never had parental guidance or support and I always had to make it work, on my own. For most of my first forty years of life I was drinking and doing drugs in order not to feel the loneliness and heartache. In my recovery, I developed true gratitude and insight into people, places and things.Sometimes, I can see the ...

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“Face Everything And Rise to LOVE” by Claudia Batiuk

Submitted to Contest #274

"Face and Rise Face and Rise Face" these words are still ringing in my ears. "You are the most loving person whom I have ever met" are a second set of words I was told almost daily in my early recovery.Since I am a child deep inside of me, it is fear and fighting the love which I carry in my soul. During my first years of childhood, I experienced severe trauma. Our mother, I have two half siblings, was physically, mentally and sexually abusive. The woman did not know what she was doing and today I pray for her soul. All the abuse never took ...

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