In the popular TEDx talk called “Designing Your Life,” Stanford design professor Bill Burnett explains how to use design principles to get unstuck in your life. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SemHh0n19LA] Not only do these principles help you get unstuck, they are principles for … Read More
Kinds of Energy Healing and How They Can Help in Recovery
Energy healing is becoming more and more mainstream for healing symptoms of addiction, withdrawal, and detox, as well as supporting recovery longterm. The term “energy healing” can seem frightening or abstract. It can be defined as a kind of healing … Read More
The Alchemy of Recovery
Alchemy is a process of transformation. Historically, it was the precursor to chemistry. The alchemical process involves the desire to turn ordinary metals into gold using a series of distillations. It’s a magical process of transmutation and transformation, one that … Read More
Finding Strength in Vulnerability
In the past decade or so, we have begun to see a reemergence in associating value with vulnerability. It is easy to understand why vulnerability has been conflated with helplessness and weakness because we allow ourselves to become vulnerable in … Read More
Embracing Faith in the Process
It seems that in recent times we have moved from a dominantly religious society to a more secular one; with this trajectory in mind, it isn’t too difficult to see that the way faith has become to be perceived as … Read More
Extracting Value and Leaving the Rest
During any experience whereby we attempt to obtain knowledge or gain wisdom, we will inevitably encounter times where what we read, what we hear, or who we encounter will not provide the type value or information we are looking for. … Read More
Managing Suffering
If we examine closely the most important philosophical, theological, and mythological notions of being in life, we see a common theme running through them all which is the perspective that suffering is an inescapable aspect of human life. The more … Read More
Goal-Setting in Recovery
When first beginning to think about setting goals in recovery, we need to be able to ask ourselves what it is that we value most. If we are able to tap into an understanding of our values, we will be … Read More
Conflict Management
Part of the necessary steps of any quality recovery program is the process of adopting new ways to cope with stress and anxiety, battle states of depression, prevent relapses, and learn to manage conflicts. As human beings, one of our … Read More
Quality Over Quantity
Counting the minutes, days, hours, weeks, and years we have been able to maintain sobriety is advantageous in recovery for many reasons. First, quantifying sober time helps direct the newcomer to individuals who have worked a solid recovery program and … Read More