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How can you make your recovery plateau an opportunity to grow deeper? ___ Right now, I’ve got a serious case of writer’s block. It may not seem like it, because I publish one new piece every day. After two years of writing this blog, I have a few strategies that I use when I have … More 10 Things I Learned About Recovery from My Experience With Writer’s Block
The semicolon declares that what you have experienced is not the end, but just the beginning of your story. ___ I have a semicolon tattooed on my right forearm. It reminds me that each day is part of a new story, part of a better future. The semicolon is a radical declaration that your story … More Healing and the Spirituality of a Tattoo
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
I fell in love in Junior High, not with a girl but with my imagination. That was the year I began my infatuation with writing. ___ It was grade eight and whenever I was asked to write a story, my mind went into overdrive. Writing was my way of getting high… it still is. Writing is great, but … More This is Why I Write: Because it Changes Me
Google thinks they own the Alphabet. Just look at how language is used on the Internet. Maybe it’s time that we take it back? ____ Google thinks they created the alphabet. Huh? I have an email that tells the story of how Google created the alphabet. It stunned me for a moment, “I thought that God created the alphabet?” No, little … More You have the power of Google, Word and Gutenberg
Don’t listen to anyone who tells you to follow your dreams. Following my dreams led to years of frustration and dead-ends. My life improved when I gave up on my dreams. ___ Big Dreams are for Disney Dreams are important, but if you have more than one dream they compete with each other. I call this dream-jousting. My … More Why “Follow your Dreams” is Terrible Advice
Follow your dreams is terrible advice. Don’t do it. Following my dreams led me to years of frustration and dead-ends. My life improved when I gave up on my dreams. Big Dreams are for Disney If I followed my dreams, I would be a career writer, travelling the world and talking about my books. But … More Follow your Dreams is Terrible Advice
A Zombie ate my brains. You know the feeling? Saturday mornings, you wake up and your brain is empty. When I am in that Zombie-ate-my-brain state, all that I can manage is coffee and cereal. And then I stare: at walls, at the TV, out the window, at the inside of my eyelids. Zombie … More Creativity and how A Zombie ate my Brains
“Nobody’s Special!” “Nobody’s Special!” The Bully poured these words over a Grade 2 student at my daughter’s school. Verbal lava. Tears marched down her cheeks and into her soul. My daughter could see the little girl crying, but older students are not allowed to go into that part of the playground. I am proud to say that my … More The Artist and The Bully
Getting High on Recovery 