Topic: stress

Stress builds up beneath your awareness. Then it passes a certain level and suddenly, you’re really aware of it.

Now we carry 24 hour access to crap in our pockets, via the phone. And rather than a couple irritating broadcasters, we have access to millions.

There’s not much point in pretending that all those years of dousing the brain with toxins hasn’t left its mark.

Clear thinking will help you make the best and healthiest choices while you build your recovery.

Many clinicians work in busy programs with lots of staff and most of the time still feel like they’re alone, almost a solo practitioner, but with a lot less control over their activities

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.

Everybody gets hungry, angry, etc.—it’s normal. Can’t avoid that, can you? That’s life.

Sober Chrystal talks about the moment when her five years of sobriety hung in the balance and nearly went over the cliff.

You can be mindful about everything. The next time you go to the grocery store and you pick up those red apples, think about the time it took for those apples to grow, who picked them, and where they came from.