Get to the Core of Who You Are!
Today as I prepare to feast on our Thanksgiving holiday, I find myself feeling quietly reflective and a bit pensive. I am still healing from the ‘disease of separation’. This disease of separation is my addiction to a multitude of substances and behaviors. These knee jerk patterns of behavior kept me separate from many things, I am…
Read More Season of GratitudeWhat is Will? How does Will aid in our sobriety and sabotage our healing? The form of all addiction is the dis-empowerment from Spirit The key question here is: What resources do I have? We must look inside our self and see what we have and what nature has to offer. Great Spirit is ever…
Read More Will – in all its facesEveryone has made it 90 days. That is reason to celebrate in and of itself. Everyone uses whatever means they can to be and remain sober. The first 90 days we use our cunning, our guile and our will. Our will is the part of us that empowers us to create a bottom line and…
Read More 90+ days and countingWell here it is… After Thanksgiving and bearing down on Hanukkah and Christmas. More opportunities to be challenged, social and remain sober. As newly sober folks the more opportunities we have to stand in our strength and test our new bottom lines. Family and friends gift us with many opportunities to flex our sober muscles. …
Read More Holidays and ceremonyWe are close to our November meeting and I am a bit concerned about the quiet that is present around me. Quiet is not a friend when we have such a short time in our sobriety. When we are quiet there is an abundance of space for pretender voices and pretense. We are all well…
Read More Infancy and sobrietyThis is poignant and so appropriate for the journey into sobriety. Live each day with your courage to speak your truth and allow your vulnerability to present itself. Each of us on the sober journey will experiment with vulnerability and fail and succeed. The only thing we know is that as we dare to be…
Read More Courage & VulnerabilityThe light and dark arrows are ways that we seek to know our selves. There is a major difference for us when we are in our addictive patterns and behaviors, in how we seek to know who we are and how we make impact. When something happens, we choose our response to the energy. The…
Read More Light and Dark ArrowsI really enjoy hearing from all of you as you move into this new journey. Your individual journey into sobriety. Each of you that have shared, have a tremendous amount of courage and strength. As you move through these baby steps of your sobriety, please be careful with how your inner critic emerges. This inner…
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