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Harriet Rossetto Harriet Rossetto

Healthy Aging Magazine

After decades leading an addiction recovery center I had poured my heart into, I experienced a seismic shift after stepping down from the role that had defined me.

For years, my identity was etched onto the nameplate on my office door, secured by a designated parking space and defined by the title “Founder.” I had been the healer,

the one with the answers, the person people sought out.

Then, almost overnight, the world went quiet — the nameplate was gone, the parking space was for someone else, and the healer became the wounded one. I was left

asking the same question many of us face after a long career:

Who am I now?

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Sermon in the desert

An updated version of my “You don’t have to be an addict to be in recovery” sermon.

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Reunification

What happens after the Fifteen Days of Light? How do we sustain this effort and resist the forces of hatred and separation? Sign me up!

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The Liz Cheney Lesson

How odd that she has become heroic, a conservative Republican I disagree with politically on every issue, who has become an exemplar of principle and truth …

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