New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. Lao Tzu Most often when I mourn an end, it is intricately wrapped up with fear of the future. Recovery has allowed me to realize that when something or someone leaves my life, it is because my Higher Power is leading me to the next part…

  Don’t lose today by worrying about tomorrow. John F. Herbert Often, my fears have kept me so caught up concerned about the future that I lose precious time in the present. When this happens, most of the time, I neglect my current duties which causes more issues for me in the long run. Today,…

  Some of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you’ve even survived But what torments of grief you’ve endured From evils which never arrived. — Emerson Oh, boy. What truth there is here. I have spent too much time enduring “torments of grief” from “evils which never arrived.” This is a common activity…

  We don’t meet people by accident. They are meant to cross our path for a reason.   There are often times when I find myself talking to someone and feeling resentful about the conversation. Very quickly, that resentment spirals and I project that lack of acceptance onto the person themselves by thinking “this person…