# Recovery
The idea that I would be ridiculed and teased if I were to reveal bits of myself, the things I liked, the things I thought, the things I was afraid of. I came to believe that the only version of me that was palatable and sale-able to the world at large was the one I was painstakingly constructing and that required the prodigious consumption of... See more
To Thine Own Self be True
I couldn't describe what or who God is — only that I have faith in it, it is inside of me, and it happens all around me
https://open.substack.com/pub/healings/p/healings-faq-no-18-brock-keeling?r=2ng4e&utm_medium=ios
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.
I thought getting sober would feel like a punishment. Instead, I feel like I’ve been given an opportunity to live a meaningful, intentional life—like my world cracked wide open.
Kristen Blanton Crocker • My Sobriety Story With Kristen Blanton Crocker
is a three-step process that takes you from making a mistake to moving beyond it.
- Own your mistake. To do this, say to yourself, “I made a mistake. I’m human. I will take responsibility for it and I will work my way through this.” Then check your emotions. Name what you are feeling.
- Show yourself compassion. Think through how this mistake happened.
Just a moment...
What are the biggest benefits or gifts of sobriety?
The greatest benefit, to me, is the ability to handle adversity and joy with the same heart. To know that despair and bliss are feelings and not states of being, and that my feelings won’t make me or break me. The greatest gifts have been my spiritual life and having true relationships
The greatest benefit, to me, is the ability to handle adversity and joy with the same heart. To know that despair and bliss are feelings and not states of being, and that my feelings won’t make me or break me. The greatest gifts have been my spiritual life and having true relationships
C.L. Steiner • My Sobriety Story With C.L.: “Giving Up Was the Key.”
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
the opposite of faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.
Nadia Bolz-Weber • The opposite of faith
the emotional literacy section of the manhood handbook was ripped out somewhere around second grade and replaced with “just walk it off.”