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I hope wherever you are, you know Recovery is with you right where you are. How do we build the first half of life? We build it through impulse control, traditions, family, community, respect for authority, civil and church laws, and a sense of goodness. When we struggle with mental health, substance misuse, or trauma […]

I hope wherever you are, you know Recovery is with you right where you are. Recovery values tradition, customs, authority, boundaries, and morality. These “boxes” give us the security, continuity, predictability, impulse control, and ego strength we need before life’s messes show up. The Twelve Steps provide a healthy structure for us. They help us

I hope wherever you are, you know Recovery is with you right where you are. Yes, we can be drawn into the second half of our Recovery. Part of its beauty is knowing that we have finished some of the work from the first half. We can move forward when we have endured, learned, and

I hope wherever you are, you know Recovery is with you right where you are. Many of us seek the fame, power, salary, or talent we see on American Idol. A SuperHuman Being learns to let go of the need to be famous or recognized. Today, being known as a famous person or even a

I hope wherever you are, you know Recovery is with you right where you are. Yesterday, we outlined the journey and stages of Recovery. Today, I want to share my lived experience of putting these stages into practice. First, I increased my knowledge. During the first part of my journey, I sought out therapists, psychiatrists,

I hope wherever you are, you know Recovery is with you right where you are. We have only to follow the string of the Recovery path. Where we thought we would find suffering, we find healing. Where we thought we would extinguish a person, we discover that we are extinguishing ourselves. Where we thought we

I hope wherever you are, you know Recovery is with you right where you are. Recovery, when we look at it honestly, brings us into union with our spirituality. This can be hard to believe or understand when we have little sense of purpose, little courage, weak boundaries, and very little inner spiritual experience. The

I hope wherever you are, you know Recovery is with you right where you are. When change and growth are not part of our Recovery, and we do not take seriously the way fear can blind us, our Recovery can become focused on staying the same. We may spend more time protecting what we already

I hope wherever you are, you know Recovery is with you right where you are. Recovery maturity is neither offensive nor defensive. It allows us to accept reality as it is. If we want to become free, we need to grow up spiritually. Richard Rohr writes in Falling Upward that the True Self we discover

  My wife and I were filled with joy as we welcomed our new grandchild into the world. We just returned from a two-week visit with our daughter and son-in-law. Josiah Roy Couch was born on August 6, 2026, at 9:36 p.m. He weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces. There is a tremendous amount of joy