Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James Before recovery, I never stopped to realize that the world exists separate from me. I went around behaving as though the universe existed because I made it so rather than the other way around. Because of this, I…

  We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Step 2 Step 2 was a stumbling block for me, until someone pointed out that “a power greater than myself” did not have to mean “God” as our culture understands “Him”. What was becoming clear to me, was that…

  When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu In becoming active in my own recovery, I have found that I regularly feel resistance to letting go of my old habits though I realize that they are no longer working for me. I feel fear that if…

    Be thankful for the bad things in life, for they opened your eyes to the good things you weren’t paying attention to before. – Unknown     As I said recently, in our podcast episode on Letting Go, I can easily get sucked into focusing on one thing that is bad in my…

      We shall overcome. – Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.     Today in the US is Martin Luther King, Jr. day. It is a day to recall how far we have come, and a day to contemplate how far we have to go, in many ways. The hymn, “We Shall Overcome” reminds…