October 2012

5 articles in October 2012

Nothing in you is greater than the love in you. It’s just that you’ve let the love live so small. Love, in all its wisdom, is silently awaiting your humble return. You are tortured with guilt. Until recent, the only way to escape it was to use again. It never …

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The way we approach our sobriety is the way we approach life. We hate this parallel. We liked to think we were proficient in most areas and that our drinking was the only problem we possessed. We were shocked to realize that our alcoholic drinking was the effect …

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Several of my followers have asked, “What actually happens in recovery coaching?” While I talk about different issues with everyone, the questions and answers are shockingly the same: What are your principles? Are you willing to live within them? How can you set it up so you can …

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How can it not be? How delusional we’ve become to think we are prepared to suddenly step in and handle life—be fine. Call me pessimistic, or even cruel, I prefer to think of it as REAL. I think if we know something is going to totally suck, then we are …

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We’ve decided to make some life changes.  We struggle brushing our teeth with the opposite hand (last week’s post). This four minutes a day, how challenging could it be? But it is. It’s becomes inconvenient, too hard, we forget, it’s not comfortable, it’s awkward, it’s just not working, …

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