Recover your joy through living relationally
I was driving my two children to school one morning in the fall and reached a road I had driven the evening before, to find that the water sprinkler that was broken that evening was still dribbling water. I said out loud to the children, “that’s a shame the water is still dribbling out from…
Recovery is an Act of Remembering Who You Are on an Individual Soul Level This is one of my core messages when it comes to being in recovery. Most of us spend half of our lives downloading a message, the model of how to relate to ourselves and the outer world, and we spend the…
Body positivity is more than just loving your body for the way it looks and being grateful for all that it does for you. Body positivity is an act of being grounded in your right to look, feel, and act in accordance with your value system. If you are having a daily struggle with body…
Blackout Zone of Shame Driving home from work you find yourself mindlessly heading to what you have come to know as the blackout zone of shame. You can feel in your body the lurking urge to binge, even though you said it would be the last time, the last time. But… You didn’t eat breakfast…
If you are new in recovery or need to get into a more recovery-based mindset you likely struggle with self-criticism. You have probably asked yourself before, “Why do I have thoughts that are so negative about myself and why can’t I get out of the repetitive cycle of being my own worst critic?” Before you…