Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain; what you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain. […]
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Can I Really Change the World?
If others’ words or deeds aren’t kind and loving, they are afraid. And I am not at fault. Plain and simple. When I know someone is filled with fear, I am filled with an inner willingness to be kind, […]
Continue reading »My Higher Power’s Hands
In my mind, I picture my Higher Power’s hands. One by one, I place my problems and worries, my joy and my gratitude, into those hands, and finally, I climb in too. ~ Family Groups, Al-Anon. Courage to Change—One Day at […]
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I am larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much goodness. ~ Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road” What do I think of me in the depths of my being? Can it be true […]
Continue reading »How Did We Get Here?
Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to — alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a […]
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