recovery

I couldn’t quit smoking until I convinced myself that smoking was for losers.

Wasn’t enough to “want” to quit. I had to actively disdain it in an over the top way.

After the identity-belief changed, the rest was (relatively) easy.

Aaron Francis

The gap between knowing what you want and going after it is where fear thrives. You don't need enough courage for the entire journey. You only need courage for the next step.

"Move toward the next thing, not away from the last thing.

Same direction. Completely different energy."

Your sanity depends on you finding the comedy in the chaos

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey.”

—Wendell Berry

True humility is the only antidote for shame.

Healing is not becoming the best version of ourselves. Healing is letting the worst version of ourselves be loved.

Addiction is a progressive narrowing

of the things that bring you pleasure.

Happiness is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. The former emerges passively.

The latter takes work.