recovery

My general working definition of compulsive/addictive behavior is “a pathological relationship to any mood-altering experience that has life-damaging consequences.”

John Bradshaw • Healing the Shame That Binds You

There's so little to be done except let go, follow one's nature, and unfold what needs to happen moment by moment, even in the midst of dissolution and Mystery. I am no longer talking about caterpillars.

River Kenna • Destabilization & the Frequency of Values

Anxiety is the universe telling you it's time to do something, to create something, anything

Dylan O'Sullivan • Tweet

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

Same direction. Completely different energy."

3-2-1: On the shortness of life, what mastery requires, and how to overlap the things you love

I have known many people who spent years in analysis and emerged with a detailed understanding of their major psychodynamics, yet experienced what they uncovered as shameful admissions rather than as expressions of their essential humanity in all its ordinary depravity and virtue

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The more you thank God for the life you have, the more your life starts to look like the one you want.

Amanda Fortini • Tweet

I knew how quickly a small slip could turn into a full-on relapse. I also knew the biggest problem wasn’t always the relapse itself, but the things I told myself about the relapse.

Cait Flanders • The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store