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
Happiness is elusive, impossible to control and it does not last. And it is important. ___ Happiness is much more than a feeling. It is about our meaning, it is spiritual. Spiritual (but not necessarily religious), because it connects with something important inside of us. Happy. It’s difficult to define, but we all know … More Recovery and Happiness
Your path will change you ___ Your path. It means everything. However you choose to go, if by foot, or by car, or by bike, or by air. How you get there makes the path come alive. In recovery, your path is your teacher. Your path will bring the obstacles. The obstacles bring life to … More Recovery is Found on the Way
Camping can teach you and me some important things about recovery. ___ When I get home from most camping trips I am in need of recovery. Not because I drink a lot, but because I have not eaten properly or slept well, because I have more blisters than I need and because I have a … More 10 Ways that Recovery is Like Camping
6 Ways to Bring Your Body With You in Your Recovery ___ Recovery begins when you reach a point of decision. For some of us, it is when we are at the end of ourselves when our health demands it, or when we realize we are heading down a path of certain destruction. Recovery begins when … More How to Recover Your Mind and Your Body
Some of the Least Helpful Mental Health Advice You Could Ever Say to Living with Mental Illness. ___ The video below is very funny and it contains a lot of truth. Sometimes we learn more from humor than anything else. Here is some of the least helpful mental health advice you could ever say… Just stop it. … More Recovery: Truth in Humor
What you expect could impact your health and well-being. ___ The only thing that is predictable about life is that it is unpredictable. Remy (Ratatouille) Funny thing about humans is that we thrive on routine even though life can be unpredictable. No, this post is inspired by a fortune cookie saying. It’s just how things … More Do You Know How High Expectations Will Hurt Your Well-being?
Addiction and mental health issues can eat away at you. They take far more than they will ever give. You soon find that you are becoming less and less human. You lose parts of yourself. You bleed soul all over the carpets of your life. Recovery is not about just making a choice to stop. … More Recovery: Surrender Begins by Standing Up
Mistakes Are the DNA of Recovery ___ Mistakes. They are the stuff that life is made of. Our DNA code is a combination of all of the mistakes and F-Ups made by previous generations. You are not a mistake, but your very life is built upon what a million of your ancestors learned the hard way. ◊♦◊ … More Addiction: No Shortcuts to Recovery
Choose Your Questions and You Can Change Your Mind ___ Your high might be from drugs, alcohol, sex, exercise, shopping, food, work, being mistake free (perfect), religion, or some other obsession. For me, my high is from the drug of compulsive eating of cookies, chips and chocolate behind closed doors with no one watching. I get high from compulsive … More Addiction: Who Are You Without Your High?
Getting High on Recovery 