“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” ―Rumi My ego likes whisper in my ear judgments every second – “this is good, this is bad.” Before recovery, my ego was…

  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent -Eleanor Roosevelt Before recovery, when others judged me, I would often get defensive and angry with them and then feel shame about myself. I remember reading this quote before recovery, too. I thought “well, I guess even Eleanor Roosevelt can be wrong.” The truth…

  You get there by realizing you are already there. – Eckhart Tolle Recovery has, for me, primarily been about recovering myself. That is to say, sometimes, when I look at a circumstance that seems daunting, I fear that I can never become the person that I need to be in order to handle the…

  A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. I am growing spiritually, every day. It is not always obvious to me, but when I do my daily inventories, I am able to see how much my thinking has changed. I am happy to see that…

  Don’t give up! I believe in you all! A person’s a person no matter how small! -Dr. Seuss There are many times in my life when I  have felt that my value comes from what I do – my job, my salary, how perfect I could make my relationships. It is often a conscious…