Rocking Recovery During Pandemic Lockdown
When the lockdown came because of the global coronavirus pandemic and so many of us couldn't attend our regular meetings, what did we do? Fall apart? ...
Real Good Recovery Podcast
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Once you are no longer in the grip of active addiction -- from alcohol or drugs or food or obsessive behaviors -- the misery may remain. This podcast discusses the many ways we can go from suffering to thriving. These ideas put to work can bring about real good recovery. It's a happy, fulfilling way to live.
My First 10-Day Silent Meditation Retreat: I Wanted to RUN AWAY Every Second!
I was already 10 years in recovery in 1992 or 1993 when I went to my first 10-day silent meditation retreat. I had no idea what I was getting into. I ...
Blessed Are the Broken Who Reach Out for Help
Anyone who is truly in recovery has reached out for help, usually in a moment of complete desperation. This is important. This is vital to real good r...
Service and Self Knowledge: How to Find the Work or Service Position Just Right for You
Early on, I thought life had to be made up of hard, back-breaking work, or work that bored me, or work that stifled my creativity. I had no idea my in...
Can We Have FUN in Recovery?
Getting into recovery means giving up the thing that made life bearable. But that thing eventually made life unbearable. If we give that up, are we se...
Praying to Remember: A Poem About Depression
When I first got into recovery at age 28 (after hitting bottom at age 24), I decided that I had to use everything that happened to me as an opportunit...
Radical Self Care
For a naturally healthy person, self care is the norm. For me, self care is a radical idea. Who am I—a person who felt like a nothing earlier in life—...
Breaking My Facebook Addiction
I've known for a while that the time I spend on Facebook during work hours is affecting my life in a negative way. It wasn't until I read a book title...
Why I Desperately Need Solitude in the Morning
I didn't know this before I got into recovery, but I desperately need solitude in the morning. I say I'm desperate for it, rather than I would "prefer...
Awesome and Arrogant: Two Peas in a Pod?
As usual, my early beliefs were totally backwards. I thought that if you were awesome, you had to be arrogant. How wrong I was.