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
Taking things personally can be a personal strength. It’s all in how you look at it. ___ They whispered and talked quietly. I could see them looking at me out of the corners of their eyes. I felt like I was watching a drug deal go down, but no this was no drug deal. It … More The Sensitive Personality: Are You An Emotional Ninja?
Is our pursuit of happiness making us unhappy? ___ Happiness: We love it. Sometimes we ache for it. And we try to hold onto it no matter how much it costs. Is our pursuit of happiness making us unhappy? Addicted to happy Our obsession with happiness might be a borderline addiction. The good news is that a … More Are we Addicted to Happiness?
My son applied for a job at McDonalds a few weeks ago. The Manager promised he would call my son back two days later. Two weeks later, no call. When all else fails, blame the person in charge? It’s easy to blame leadership for situations like this. A lot of people applied for work that day, I can only … More Depression and the Personal Politics of Blame
You can learn from someone, even when we don’t appreciate what they do. ___ Last week, Prince died. While the details of his death are still to be determined, all that I see around me are articles about his life. I will say it once and clearly, I didn’t like his music. I’m not a hater, … More I Didn’t Like Prince, But I Learned a Lot From Him About Being a Man
If you were stripped of your memory, would recovery become easier? ___ I can only imagine the pain that will confront a someone who has lost their memories. Alzheimer’s, traumatic brain injury, memory loss due to aging or other conditions is painful and a trial to endure. In recovery, memories become seared into the mind. … More Addiction: Forgetting Your Way into Recovery
Tiny events add up: Recovery is one choice at a time ___ Tiny events. Small, minor stories. Events add up. Decisions matter. Do you want to make your days profound? I wrote about this in my journal the other day, “I try to make my day profound. I want it marked with excellence, exuberance and the … More Addiction: The Importance of Living Small
For someone in your life, you are indispensable. If you doubt it, just pick up the phone. ___ One telephone pole. Is one telephone pole really neccessary? Who cares about one lousy telephone pole. I can just whip out my cell phone and instantly make connections across the world. Who needs landlines to connect the dots? … More 16 Men and a Telephone Pole
Maybe it’s time to give recovery the finger? ___ We have gotten the idea of recovery wrong. Wrong! Recovery is sometimes thought of the absence of an addiction and the replacement with something more healthy. But life is more than addition and absence, plus and minus. Your body is continually adding new cells and removing old, decaying … More Give Recovery the Finger
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
Getting High on Recovery 