Nine ways to heal your tendency to take words too literally ___ The only way that you will experience love is to risk NOT being loved. To love is to face the possibility of rejection, of scorn, of hurt, of misunderstanding. To be together you have to be willing to be alone. Relationships can be … More Do You Know How To Let Go of Hard Things That Other People Say?
For article on the 20 words that can change your recovery and your relationships, 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 … More Without Seeing there is No Insight
In 2017, improve your recovery and your relationships with these 20 words ___ Recovery is difficult. If all that you have to do is take care of your recovery, you have your hands full. But add in the complications that accompany most relationships, that is enough to drive you to… well, drive you to drive … More How to Change Your Relationships and Your Recovery With Just 20 Words
For the article on Recovery: The Most Powerful Words That You Will Ever Hear, 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 … More The Most Powerful, Healing Words You Will Ever Hear
Your words shape your destiny. So how healthy is your verbal diet? ___ Your words become your destiny. Your words become your future and your future shapes your destiny. So use them wisely. It is not simply a truism of positive thinking: How you talk is who you are (and who you will be). In … More Recovery and How You Are What You Speak
Your recovery and healing will go deeper when you drop the But! ___ Is your but giving your problems? Chances are, your “but” (not your butt) is getting in the way of your life and your recovery. Your but-it list You know that your but is giving you troubles when it seeps more and more … More Maybe it’s Time to Get Off Your But?
Perhaps is not fatalism or giving up. It is radical and bad-ass. It is a refusal to give up, it is radical acceptance and defiant hope when life is persistently difficult. Perhaps acknowledges how difficult things are, while you do what you can do to make a change. For more on the power of perhaps, click … More Your Recovery Needs this One Powerful Word
Falling down is just the one step towards getting back up. ___ Over 1 Million words. That is how many words you and I have access to in the English language. You and I probably use about 1% of them, which is about 10,000 words. Every day, our language grows as more words are … More Lessons We Can Only Learn by Falling Down
What are the most powerful words in the English language? ___ I made the mistake of asking this question to my 15-year-old. He’s in grade 10, so I should have expected some foul language. Yup, that’s where he went. I won’t repeat what he said. I asked my wife and daughter, all I got was … More Recovery: The Most Powerful Words You Will Ever Hear
If you want to recover well and improve your life, what you say may be the key. ___ Right now, you are talking to yourself. In fact, it is nearly impossible NOT to talk to yourself. Turn off the TV, and put your iPod on mute and for one minute try not to talk to yourself. … More Words: What You Don’t Know Can Change Your Life
Getting High on Recovery 