What songs have inspired you in your recovery? ___ So what describes one person’s experience of addiction? It’s personal. I am a fan of U2. Like me, you may appreciate their body of work, or you may not. But I invite you to consider what their lyrics have to say about the fall into addiction. … More U2: Addiction is So Cruel and Recovery is No Fool
Every day I live with a ringing doorbell in my brain. 24 hours a day. 7 days a week. No vacation, no raise in my pay check, and no amount of alcohol will take the ringing away. My doctors call it Tinnitus. I call it a pain in the neck, a pain in the ass, … More Your Mind Will Give You Many Reasons You Can’t Do It. So What?
Grace will not break it’s way into your life. Grace can use your circumstances, relationships and your vulnerabilities to quietly help you to bend around your brokenness. You may feel broken by addiction, depression, family, abuse, rejection, pain or by the consequences of your actions. These things may feel like they have broken you. Your … More If You Feel Broken, Remember that Grace Makes Beauty Out of Ugly Things
For article, “Recovery and How to Build a Bridge to Healing” click on 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 … More Recovery is About Building a Bridge from Where You are at to Where You Want to Be
For article, “Recovery and How to Build a Bridge to Healing” click on 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 … More Healing is NOT about being pain free!
For article, “Recovery and How to Build a Bridge to Healing” click on 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 … More Today, Give Yourself the Gift of Patience
Is your recovery a sort of homecoming? ___ A few weeks ago I had a tough day. No, actually it was more like a tough week. I would like to think that it came up on me quickly, but in reality it was right there, simmering in the background for days. Ever had a week … More Recovery and How to Build a Bridge to Healing
Good men need a song. Not a song of anger, or fire, but a song that calls them by name. ___ Someone… You have scars? Join the Good Men. We are those whose beauty is not marred By scars. That is you. That is me. You have scars? Join the Good Men. We are … More U2: “Song for Someone” is Written for The Good Men Out There
Recovery is an explosion of emotion. ___ Your emotions, your experience, your mind can explode in unimaginable fireworks. It does not look pretty. Recovery is raw and real, because life is just that: raw and real. Life explodes and people die Life can be injected and people get high Life will kick you and you … More Recovery is Being Raised by Wolves
Starting, not Quitting is the Hardest Thing About Recovery. ____ How has addiction impacted you and your family? For me, it is easy to say that my father drank heavily and that I consider him an addict. It is easy to point a finger about his drinking, his anger, his abuse. An Addiction to Easy? I … More Addiction: The Hardest Thing About Recovery
Getting High on Recovery 