# Recovery
My body knows — has always known — what I want. The feeling of ease and sinking into, yes. This. This feels right.
In sobriety, I am recalling what my body wants.
What I have to tease out in sobriety is what is a nervous feeling for good reason, and what is a nervous feeling from trauma.
The body knows, my favorite Boundaries Coach Molly Davis... See more
In sobriety, I am recalling what my body wants.
What I have to tease out in sobriety is what is a nervous feeling for good reason, and what is a nervous feeling from trauma.
The body knows, my favorite Boundaries Coach Molly Davis... See more
Overcoming the tyranny of choice in sobriety
I don’t how shame came to be part of the equation of who I am—but it ran pretty deep. I think that sense of inner shame is pretty common among us alcoholics and addicts; it’s true that drinking and using let us escape other people and external obligations—but it was mostly me that I was running from.
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I remembered that I actually did put this person on a way-too-early amends list, one that I'd thrown together with a few weeks of sobriety and zero program. I put them on the list, not because I did anything to them but because I simply wanted them to like me. In my delusional Dale Carnegie fever dream, I'd win this friend and influence the person... See more
The Small Bow • How to Take Things Personally
preoccupied attachment — always scanning for proof we’re loved, always bracing for abandonment. We’re so used to checking the “supply line” to feel okay — whether that’s alcohol, a person, or constant external validation — that we forget we can carry the reassurance inside us.
Peek-a-Boo: Wait... I Don't See You
I work with extroverts, people who were never the kid no one wanted to sit next to on the bus
Ben T G • Washing my shirts in hot till I feel swole
We were placed in the middle of adult dysfunction at a very young age. We learned it was our job to focus on others and make things better. We also learned that our needs and wants were not important. It became a habit we carried into adulthood that also kept us from looking at ourselves.
Today I pray that money comes to me with ease and clarity. I pray to spend and save within my value system. I remember that debt doesn’t make me bad or unworthy. My money business is my business, not anyone else’s. God as my employer, I surrender to spirit’s will for me.
Spending Without Urgency
the monopolistic god of irritable omnipresence , and you have the definition of God that people are usually referring to when they ask whether you believe God exists
Jason Kirk • WATCH GRID: Everything has always been new
Richard Rohr, OFM.
“The false self is all the things we pretend to be and think we are. It is the pride, arrogance, title, costume, role, and degree we take to be ourselves. It is what’s passing and what’s going to die, and it is not who we are ,”
“The false self is all the things we pretend to be and think we are. It is the pride, arrogance, title, costume, role, and degree we take to be ourselves. It is what’s passing and what’s going to die, and it is not who we are ,”