My plans may involve many actions and many risks, but I don’t have to tackle them all today. I can take my time and move step by step at my own pace. By focusing on one thing at a time, […]
Continue reading »Gratitude
Little things, tiny blessings. Major events, gigantic triumphs. Daily events, lifetime mileposts the list of things I’m grateful for grows, diverse, random, repetitious, minutia and gargantuan… Why is it important to list what we’re thankful for? Because we race through […]
Continue reading »Tenacity
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. ~ Amelia Earhart Walking through the doors of the rooms of recovery takes courage, desperation, hopelessness, despair. Staying there feels wrong but seems right all the […]
Continue reading »It’s Simple
We can make recovery complicated and oh, how natural that feels, we controllers, we perfectionists, we worriers. But if we diversify, upsize, augment or elaborate on it, we don’t add… we eviscerate it. It’s simple. Not easy, mind you, but […]
Continue reading »Touch a Giraffe
Dream big! When we release our lives, turn them over to a Power greater than we those lives take on, well, a life of their own… or more precisely, that of the Power. What we’ve tried and failed, dreamed and […]
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