# Recovery

I delude myself into thinking I'll feel better if only I do things my way, which may give me a temporary high but are by no means a longer term salve. Sometimes I pass these actions off as habits I need to practice in order to keep my spiritual backbone strong. Honestly though I can loosen my grip a little and understand the important distinction b... See more

That the small decisions add up—in both directions. I can decide to take daily actions that put my needs first, feel incrementally better, and be able to help others. Or, I can put something else first, quickly start to suffer, and become a burden to everyone around me. It’s all so infuriatingly simple.

God’s will” for him is that he live a life filled with compassion, love and service.

I work with extroverts, people who were never the kid no one wanted to sit next to on the bus

The only way I knew to accommodate the duality in me was to drink.

You know it’s okay to need people, right?

To ask for help? We know that a lot of people believe that you should be out here pulling yourself up by your bootstraps but we’d like to propose an alternative: that we put out our hand when we need help, and let someone else do the pulling. And when we’re up and steady, we reach back and offer a hand.

I didn’t know how to stop the slow motion accident that was my life.

"I was always loved, but I always wondered, also, what that love depended on." (Leslie Jamison, The Recovering)