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"You look so much healthier!!!" Must.Remember.This.Is.A.Compliment. (repeat as necessary) OMG!!!!  So much this!  For those of you in the early stages of recovery that include weight gain, please please please keep this in mind. You will get told this.  Many times....

“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find withanother, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not changeyou. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when youare looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness...

“Whatever is true is eternal, and cannot change or be changed. Spirit is therefore unalterable because it is already perfect, but the mind can elect what it chooses to serve. The only limit put on its choice is that it cannot serve two masters.”  (Course Of...

What was the hardest thing about recovery for me? I received this question in my DMs recently.  The first thing that came to my mind after reading it was the word control. Control came in many forms for me while I was...

Isn’t the past kind?  It’s always over.  Byron KatieCan I get an Amen?  When I first saw this quote, I immediately loved it.  Isn’t the past kind?  It’s always over. I for one used to live in the past.  I would rehash all my mistakes over and over in my head....

Please do me a favor and throw the damn thing away.  Do yourself a favor and throw the damn thing away.  It’s not helping or serving you in any way.  It’s only hurting you.  Taunting you.  Ridiculing you.  You know it’s true. I used to be...

“The nice thing about rain is that it always stops. Eventually.”  EeyoreTo fully appreciate the good days, you have to experience the bad days.  How would you ever know what a good day was, if you never had a bad day to measure it by?  A bad day does...

For so long we have put ourselves at the bottom of our to do lists.  This week I want each one of you to do something nice for yourselves.  Just for you. It is important to take time out for self care, especially in recovery.  Celebrate all your little...

If you ever begin to see a therapist, he or she will most likely suggest that you start a journal.  I'm suggesting you start one now if you don't have one already.  It doesn't have to be fancy.  I'd write in a plain notebook, like one you use for...

Over five years ago I had surgery that put me out for awhile.  It took a few months to feel where I felt normal again.  Relatively normal that is.   My body would let me know when it had taken on too much for the day and such.  So I listened....