I wish to God I could unknot the mesh that is my life, to rectify the sin constraining howls within my soul, confess the blackness haunting me from depths within. Would that the soul who huddles from the ghost of my […]
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Are you Standing in Your Sunshine?
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Do you get in your own way? Do you block yourself off from sunshine? Do you direct your attention to others’ lives […]
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A friend of mine once said “People call Step Ten the permanence but I prefer to think of it as the Growth Step. I’d rather be green and growing than to be ripe and rotting!” ~ Wanda S. Step Ten: […]
Continue reading »First Love Yourself
…in order to be able to love and accept others unconditionally. Learning to love ourselves is a challenge to all of us; none of us is born loving ourselves. We have to work toward it. When we neglect ourselves emotionally, […]
Continue reading »Sarcasm
I was very sarcastic—I still am working on that because the definition of sarcasm is “a cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound,” and that goes against my values. ~ P., Bill; W., Todd; S., Sara. Drop the Rock: Removing Character […]
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