Hopefully by now in your recovery process you’ve at least ‘heard’ of these nasty little buggers that can destroy an addict/alcoholic faster than anything else.  (you know “number one offender” and all that jazz? No? It’s in the book. Both of em. Yep.)  Mirriam and Webster what say you? re·sent·ment noun \ri-ˈzent-mənt\ Definition of RESENTMENT [...]

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Boundaries. Slippery little suckers they can be. When to go, stay, say “Shup”, or comere … who knows what’s what? Just like anything else in recovery, it’s an issue of internal fortitude.  Giving a little may mean allowing an inch to become a marathon, while standing firm could spell certain catastrophe. I mean really. The [...]

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Spiritually absent or spiritually aware?  Prefacing this idea of spiritual or the conscience if you’d rather with no monikers of anything. No specific god speak or whatnot.  And certainly not the judgment pounding good/bad, right/wrong pundits in their habits of shame. What fits or what doesn’t, what works or what will not, what it is [...]

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Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understand him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.  Step 11 Alcoholics Anonymous. Well … by now you just may have got the whole praying thing down. Meditation?? What in the sam [...]

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adjective: attentive, aware, or careful Mindful. Aware. Awake. We often speak of meditating in recovery. How to begin? How to listen? Be in your space. BE AWARE. BE STILL.  Take a deep breath and let it flow. Calm the voices in your head and listen to the silence. This takes much discipline and practice. It [...]

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