Growing Up In Recovery After You Get Sober
If you stick around recovery groups for a while, you’ll eventually hear someone talk about growing up in recovery. That’s my story. When this all...
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6 Ways To Overcome Sober Weight Gain
When I got sober the last thing I expected was gaining a load of weight and insatiable food cravings. If that was advertised as a...
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God In A Box VS. A God Box –
Religion taught me to put God in a box. Recovery teaches me to put my problems in a God Box. Everything I knew about religion...
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Safety Is A Quiet Place To Think
Where is safety in this confusing world with challenging issues all around us? What single thing do we all need to keep our balance and...
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Summertime Depression Takes Its Toll
Summertime depression is real. The heat, the longer days, the vacations, the beach, the relaxation. The expectation that you’re supposed to be having a great...
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Quitting Alcohol Set Me Free
Quitting alcohol seemed unnecessary when I decided to do it. After all, I am not an alcoholic, I would have said. I have always had...
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When Disaster Strikes
We’re not in control of so many aspects of our lives. We can’t control what the other people in our lives are going to do,...
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Why Y12SR Yoga For Recovery Helps
Y12SR yoga for recovery is short for Yoga of 12-Step Recovery (Y12SR®). It has the added component of a 12-step-based discussion and yoga practice, and...
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5 ways Yoga recovery works to restore life after addiction –
Yoga recovery is a tool that works in many ways to enhance recovery from whatever ails you. Do you know what it is? Yoga is...
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De-cluttering Is A Healthy Detachment –
Spring cleaning is an old concept that has grown beyond dusting behind the sofa. Spring cleaning can mean a deeper kind of de-cluttering that extends...
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Follow your bliss the Japanese Way –
Joseph Campbell, who was my professor in college, used to tell us to follow your bliss. The whole idea was lost on me all those...
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Routine For Serenity
Everyone’s talking about their routine for serenity. OK, maybe not everyone, but we are. What is serenity and why do you need it? Let’s define...
