Category Archives: Step 3: Breaking Free
A No-cost Help for Relieving Stress
This post was originally published a number of years ago. The message is simple, but it can such an effective way to reduce stress that I wanted to share it with you again today. I pray that it will help make your day just a little easier! All addictions do basically the same thing. They…
Resolutions: Pass or Fail?
How are you doing with those New Year’s Resolutions? Statistics show us that the vast (and I mean VAST) majority of New Year’s resolutions will be broken by the second week of January. Yikes! That’s not very encouraging, is it? Are we going to just end up in the same disappointing scenario as last year…
Staying Strong Through the Holidays
With Christmas only weeks away, it’s time for our annual “take care of yourself” reminder (it first appeared in 2010). In all the busyness of the season, it’s easy to forget our priorities, which can put our recovery in jeopardy. Paying attention to a few simple things can help assure that a return to old…
Maybe Laughter Really IS the Best Medicine!
There is increasing evidence that there’s a strong correlation between addiction and stress. Many addictions actually develop as an unconscious attempt to alleviate the chronic stress in a person’s life. Although addictive behaviors may provide a very brief relief from feeling stressed, they do nothing to get rid of the underlying anxiety or its cause.…
Fear Not!
I was cleaning out some papers this morning and ran across a handwritten note containing the following thoughts: Fear is a bad habit that CAN be broken — choose trust not fear GOD did not give us the spirit of fear Fear is the PERCEPTION that everything is out of control COURAGE is fear that…
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