Central to feeling good – and good about yourself. Skills anyone can learn and master is listed below Feeling Good Now – And Later There’...

What needs are you not having met? (have not been met growing up) If you are trying to always meet others needs that means that there are...

Five ways to sabotage your self-improvement or recovery program during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic 1. Give up Nothing will so sur...

There has been so much information bandied about in recent days, I thought I would try and make some sense of what's happening to us all....

Its now been several weeks that our world has been turned upside down. I hope everyone is staying safe and sane. Here are a few more thou...

I hope that my post of yesterday was helpful to a few of you. I don't know if the blog-is-sphere is consuming any of my posts, but I feel...

As I sit here in my office reflecting on the past few weeks I can't but help to think of all the people I have encountered who struggle w...

The Emotions that Can Cause Damage in Recovery Early sobriety is often described as being an emotional rollercoaster ride. This refers to...

Rejection acts like a tree with a bitter root. It can only produce bitter fruit. Listed below are some examples of the fruit rejection pr...

Since some behaviors are simply learned, and may have little to do with one’s level of self-esteem, it’s best to look at the overall pict...

In the course of illness, relapse is a return of symptoms after a period of time when no symptoms are present. Any strategies or treatmen...

Saging A House – Saging or Smudging is a thousands of years old practice. It was used in healing, rituals, cleansing and protection. Nowa...

“How would your life be different if…You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day…You shake off yourself defeating ...

There are two types of addiction to drugs and alcohol: substance abuse and substance dependence. Regardless of the substance, either type...

Directions: Allow images of your childhood home to surface in your mind. Take yourself back to one of your first memories of where there w...

Growing up in an addicted family creates a host of interpersonal and "intrapersonal" conflicts. One of the most common, yet complex confl...

Guilt: a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense, crime, wrong, etc., whether real or imagined. Another simple way to expla...

A crisis can present in many different forms, from the death of a loved one, to loss of a job, to collapse of a marriage, to financial di...