People in Recovery

We were using the same kind of language to talk about it: Focusing, centering, in the moment, relaxing, stress-reducing, peaceful.

He can recite the Steps and thump the Big Book with the best of them, but somehow missed out on one of the truly important lessons of most people’s recovery — the need for a degree of personal serenity.

It’s just an extremely effective way to establish a reasoned, rational sense of self that is unaffected by crisis and conflict.

If you’re not fighting your own conscience, you feel better about yourself, and conflicts with others diminish, too.

The coffee is just not that tasty. Yet they were getting something out of it that was important to them.

By focusing on the welfare of someone else, James had gotten the full benefit of the Ninth Step.

What I like about resolve is that it has no sell-by date. Resolve focuses on progress, not perfection.

Reclaiming holidays doesn’t just keep them from becoming relapse triggers– it can also offer chances to live the joy in recovery.

Closure is a great aid to the process of recovery, as it allows you to shut the door to that part of your life and move forward to newer, better things.

He burned through more than a few sponsors before settling with an older gentlemen who’d gotten clean and sober following a career as a Baltimore drug thug and a stretch in state prison.