For article, “How to Create a Better Mindset in Your Recovery” 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 … More Recover Your Creativity and You Will Create Your Recovery
You are the artist and your first creation is who you are “The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It as though the flow of life were backed up.” May Sarton as cited by Lewis Hyde If you cannot learn to be creative, then … More How to Create a Better Mindset in Your Recovery
Want to see your future? What you see may shock you. ___ Imagine that you could glimpse into your future. Would it change you? Some people imagine that a vision of the future would change them: To see yourself in your successes, your loneliness, your struggles. We live life on cruise control Life is every … More Use the Future to Create a Better Life for Yourself: The Ebenezer Effect
Learning to use your imagination for your recovery may be the key to change. ___ What is it? You know, that thing that you want to be rid of? For some of us, it may be a relationship. For others, it may be an addiction or a really strong habit. And for others, it may be … More Recovery: Discover What Pulls You Forward
Don’t just think with your head. Think with your heart, your hands and your feet this year. ___ This year, I have a goal. I need to lose weight because my brain is too fat. “You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. … More 8 Things You Can Do If Your Brain is Too Fat
When you say “I wonder…” you have already changed, your recovery has begun. ___ “The Spirit of God hovered over the waters.” Before God worked, he hovered. Hovering is the work before the work. Hovering is what happens when the painter looks at her empty canvas, the writer opens an blank screen, and a builder looks into the … More Addiction: Recover the Wonder
Unnecessary things are like USB ports. They are reminders, mementos, inspirational pointers that allow you and I to time travel… mental triggers of vacations past, adventures forward and unlived dreams. Unnecessary things are the seeds of a wild imagination and they make life worthwhile. Todd Henry talks about Unnecessary Creating in a recent Accidental Creative Podcast. After … More The Necessity of Living Unnecessarily
Getting High on Recovery 