Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. ~ Elbert Hubbard Our best function is not the gift of advice, becoming counselors (maybe especially […]
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Start Over
This was when I learned that you have to give up your life as you know it to get a new one: that sometimes you need to let go of everything you’re clinging to and start over, whether because you’ve […]
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Recovery. The process of gaining again; of pulling from mountains of waste the precious essence entombed. An idea so large, so vague, so elusive we could believe it illusive. Until it’s ours.
Continue reading »Healthy Body Size Is a Cat
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you’ll find it rubbing up […]
Continue reading »What I Already Know
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. Epictetus They say you can’t be too dumb (though usually more courteously) but you can be too smart to understand the Twelve Steps, to get recovery. […]
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