# Recovery
I have always struggled with emotional regulation. I was subject to runaway feelings, scary racing thoughts, from a pretty early age. Scary things that I was not able to dispatch on my own. Fear was such an overwhelming feeling for me, I was afraid to be afraid, if that makes any sense. My imagination produced incipient catastrophes from relatively... See more
Drinking, Alchemy and Fear
Go to bed earlier. Wake up and move right away. Find sunlight and get in it. Even when you feel tired, go on a walk. Cheer yourself on the entire time. These small shifts are creating an entirely new version of yourself. Commit to them, and you’ll be a different person.
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I am inherently beautiful and worthy, exactly as I am.
Kezia Calvert • Untangling the Web of Alcohol Abuse & ADHD
Defeating the Enemies of Sobriety
substack.com““The day is to be experienced, not understood!””
— The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have by Mark Nepo
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— The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have by Mark Nepo
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I thought the self-loathing, anxious, ‘not enough’ aspects of my personality were integral to who I was. But they weren’t. Turning to alcohol to cope with that inner critic was a bad decision.
Your best days are ahead of you
Christianity is not about changing other people—it isn’t! It’s nice if people do change, but that’s God’s work. It’s about changing ourselves, and that never stops.
The live bough bends. The dead twig snaps.
Mark Nepo