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Addiction: Main Problem and Main Solution: Top Two Takeaways From A Recent Retreat, by Re
After a recent 12 step retreat, there were two things that kept popping back up in my mind. They are not, of course, novel, but I believe...
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Dec 21, 20237 min
Radical Amazement and Its Evil Twin, Despair, by Grace
This essay was inspired by Center for Action and Contemplation meditations on the theme of Awe and Amazement from the week of December...
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2forrecovery
Nov 27, 202313 min
How Can I Explain The How Could I? Red Flag Behavior For Anyone, by Re
Part One. Remember, None of this is offered as an Excuse. It is Preventive Medicine Instead. After more than six and a half years of...
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Aug 16, 20238 min
“The Myth of Normal” Review Part One: New Understanding of Addictions, Traumas, and Illness, by Re
Summary: Reading Gabor Mate’s recent book, “The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture” is like having my own...
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Aug 16, 20236 min
"The Myth of Normal" Review Part 2: A New Normal With A New Addiction Focus, by Re
Mate reminds us that as beings we want to be in stable caring mutual environments, not aggressive hostile ones. Of course, the latter is...
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Jul 4, 20236 min
Digging Up Relics From The Oldest Ground Of My Addiction
Secrecy and separateness are two of my main proto-addictions, my Ur-addictions, those earliest of tendencies that, like childhood...
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2forrecovery
Apr 28, 202310 min
Objectification vs. Love: How To Re-See, Respect, Others, by Re
This post is inspired by the books “In Praise of Love,” by Alain Badiou and “I and Thou” by Martin Buber. See the Book Reviews and...
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2forrecovery
Apr 4, 20234 min
Bibliotherapy, pt. 5: The Screwtape Letters: Sin, Addiction, and Recovery
In 1942, novelist, literature professor, and lay theologian C.S. Lewis wrote a religious satirical novel, The Screwtape Letters, about...
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2forrecovery
Apr 3, 20235 min
Bibliotherapy, pt. 4: Wisdom of the Enneagram, by Re
The Enneagram is a psychological (some would add spiritual) tool which I first encountered in the 1990s when beginning my seminary and...
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Mar 28, 20239 min
Remorse and Recovery: Holding More Than One Truth At All Times, by Re
I believe a mark of a healthy mind and spirit (in other words sobriety) is the capacity and ability to hold at the same time at least...
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Mar 22, 20238 min
Re’s Lessons For Relationships Learned From 15 Minute Phone Calls
Like many things in recovery and life, frustrations can lead to growth and better relationships. That is what came out of the prison...
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Mar 18, 20236 min
Re's Bibliotherapy, pt. 3: “12&12” and “Falling Upward”
Here are two more books especially for the one early in recovery, but good to revisit often. "The 12 Steps and 12 Traditions." This book...
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2forrecovery
Mar 18, 202310 min
Re's Bibliotherapy, Pt. 2: More inspiration on my sober and spiritual path
There are a few standard books of recovery that are fresh and life-changing every time they are met for the first time by someone in the...
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2forrecovery
Mar 6, 20236 min
Why Lichens Inspire Recovery by Grace
I am under a lot of stress right now but spent my coffee time this morning sitting near the garden listening to birds and watching a...
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2forrecovery
Mar 6, 20236 min
The Hacking of My American Mind, pt.3: The 4 C’s and My "Outer Circle" Of Recovery, by Re
Dr. Lustig explores the difference between pleasure and happiness. These are old truths but ones I, like many, have ignored. He quotes...
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Mar 2, 20233 min
The Ick Factor: Disgust, Shame, Prevention and Recovery by Re
Disgust, it has been stated, is seen as disgusting. We turn away from what disgusts us, and so we tend to want to turn away from what...
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Mar 2, 20237 min
The brief overview from Re
We often say in recovery groups that all our stories are unique to us and all our stories are the same. Mine then, too, as explored...
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Mar 1, 20234 min
Bibliotherapy, Part One: Reading and Recovery by Re
Simply put, bibliotherapy is engaging in reading to find healing. Much of it focuses on certain kinds of readings. Perhaps works of...
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2forrecovery
Mar 1, 20239 min
Stop Digging The Hole In Your Relationship Too: Top 5 Beginning Tips ForThe Betrayer by Re
So you have been discovered or have disclosed your acting out and double life and are faced now with the consequences in a relationship....
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2forrecovery
Feb 25, 20233 min
"The hacking of my American Mind" Part One by Re
Robert Lustig’s book, “The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of our Bodies and Brains” was one of...
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