I roar, a lion incensed you deign to cross me. I scurry, a trembling mouse as you approach. Like a wood rat I claim your bauble for its sparkle. It’s natural For an animal. I want to be more, I […]
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Meditation
Meditate. Wait. I hesitate, I can vacillate, translate, inflate, celebrate, masticate, conjugate… But meditate? When I wake my mind skates straight to figure eights. I cannot sate the breakneck gait. Meditate? It’s some mistake. Wait. Intake breath, deflate. Thoughts abate, […]
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Detachment is a key to recovery from codependency. It strengthens our healthy relationships—the ones that we want to grow and flourish. It benefits our difficult relationships—the ones that are teaching us to cope. It helps us! ~ Beattie, Melody. The […]
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I went trembling into a house in Brooklyn filled with strangers . . . and I found I had come home at last, to my own kind. There is another meaning for the Hebrew word that in the King James […]
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The word wellspring from Old English welspryng, means living spring, fountainhead. The wellspring of Twelve Step Recovery lay close to that of the word. Frank Buchman, from the United States, discovered the Oxford Group, which as The Holy Club, was […]
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