Category Archives: Step 3: Breaking Free
Not What We Expected
The summer days seem to be catapulting by. We’ve hardly even had time to catch our breath. But it hasn’t really been all that enjoyable. It’s been a constant stream of activity and hard work. My brain is so tired of planning, grocery shopping and cooking. Time after time we’ve packed the car for this…
Why Can’t I Stop?
Do you ever feel like you’re on auto-pilot? Somehow the flight plan has been filed and it feels like you’re almost powerless to change your course? Actually, that may not be far from the truth . . . but it doesn’t have to stay that way. There is a part deep within our brain called…
A Sure-fire Strategy
As a rule, humans are creatures of habit. Most of us sit in the same pew each week, we go to the same restaurants, we stick with what we know and are comfortable with—even if it no longer meets our needs. But . . . “If you always do what you’ve always done, you always…
WANTED: Happiness
Want to be happier? Almost everybody does. But for most, if not all, of us happiness is fleeting. It keeps slipping through our fingers. It seems to come or go depending on our circumstances at the moment. Maybe, what we’re really looking for is something with more staying power. Maybe what we’re really looking for…
Where’s the Line?
In pursuing sobriety of any kind, one of the most ominous tasks we face is learning how to do life with healthier insights, choices and behaviors. In early recovery, as we are still trying to understand what those are, it is not unusual to unintentionally cross over “the line” and end up repeating the same…
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