For article on how to avoid being a stubborn jackass in 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 Recovery is Hard but Being a Stubborn Jackass is Optional
Recovery is hard but being a stubborn jackass is optional. ___ Warning: This post is hard stuff. Relationships are not part of your recovery, they are your recovery. Recently I wrote in my journal these powerful and inspiring words: Relationships are my recovery. The quality and depth of my relationships says a great deal about … More How Not to be a Stubborn Jackass in Your Recovery
For article on how relapse can improve 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 and best of … More Perfectionism Will Destroy Your Recovery
A slip made me realize that I have defined recovery as being perfect rather than improving. ___ This post is personal for me. Last week, I had another junk food binge. Christmas is hell on my recovery for a lot of reasons and for me right now, food is a battleground. This time, I … More How Relapse has Improved My Recovery
For more about control, power and 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 and best of my writing. … More Control and Your Mental Health
Perhaps Today Will Be Better? ___ Perhaps is a word of change. It is a word that is both uncertainty and possibility all wrapped in one. It believes in spontaneity, chance, and wonder. It is playful. It gives flexibility to our thinking and an openness to new things. Perhaps today will be better. Perhaps is not … More Perhaps this is One of the Most Radical Words of Your Recovery
Being a Great Parent Might Become Your Downfall ___ There are days when I don’t feel like I am a very good parent. Days where my kids would rather pay attention to their iPods than listen to me. My jokes are not funny anymore. I’m crabby, and come to think of it, I’m flabby. I’ve … More The Shadow Side of Parenting
Your keys hold profound lessons. Don’t neglect them, because they want to talk to you. ___ You are like a new key. Sometimes you can be sharp, with rough and perfect edges. Sometimes you expect too much and you can be stuck up and rigid. New keys always stick. I don’t know the exact reason … More Do You Know the Four Keys to Relationship Resilience?
Getting High on Recovery 