For article on how addiction recovery is a simple path, click on the photo above. I write articles about wellness, leadership, parenting and personal growth. My hope is to deliver the best content I can to inspire, to inform and to entertain. Sign up for my blog if you want to receive the latest and best … More Recovery is a Simple Path
Car shopping can make you a better person… or it can make you want to lick doorknobs. ___ I hate car shopping and I bet you do too. The end product, the car, usually makes you happy… but the process is a grind. I compare it to riding a roller coaster. You get strapped in … More The Zen of Car Shopping
Your diagnosis does not have to define you ___ Fight. It’s what we do. We come into the world screaming and we often leave the planet still screaming and thrashing. Darwin called it the Survival Instinct, really it is just our innate sense of fighting against decline or suffering. We come into the world screaming and we … More How do You Accept Your Depression Without Surrendering to it?
You may have control issues, I know that I certainly don’t. ___ Okay, just a bit. I love to hold the bag of chips so that I get more than the rest of the family. Am I selfish? I don’t think so, I just like to be the Holder of the Bag. It’s fun to … More Do You Have Control Issues?
Life is hard. It just is. But waking up is more fun than dreaming. ___ Being a person is difficult. It is a triumph of engineering that we can become as mature and put together as we appear most days. True, most of us are a combination of flesh and bone, cloth, hair gel, make … More The 8 Stages of Becoming a Human Being
5 No-Nonsense Ways to Choose Yourself and Change Your Life ___ Every day you have 24 hours. Most of those hours are probably directed towards things that matter to you: Work, family, nutrition, exercise and Television. For some of us, TV may come first and if that is you, your priorities are probably out of … More Choosing Yourself: A No Nonsense Guide to Change
Go ahead, hug a tree. But don’t forget to hug yourself too, because whether you know it or not, you are 90% post consumer recycling. __________ Welcome to today. It is Wednesday where I live, but it could be Tuesday or Thursday depending on where you are… If you are retired or on vacation, it … More Relax, no need to Recycle because You My Friend, ARE Recycled!
Addiction is inventing chaos when we are insecure, uncertain or afraid. It is a defense mechanism that helps us avoid. We invent chaos when we over eat, over buy, over pack, over stock our homes, get over busy, over debt ourselves, over do things, or over think. Recovering health is not easy, but it is … More Addiction: A simple path
This post is the sequel to my recent article The Angry Lego Man in my Junk Drawer. I hope you are entertained and enlightened, or enterlightened. I love my Guerilla Glue. I have a long list of items that I have used it to repair, from plates and cups to loose shelves and … More Can Shattered Dreams be Fixed with a Little Guerilla Glue?
Getting High on Recovery 