life skills

Do I Care What You Think?

I know it may be kind of silly but I am wondering for how many of you your addiction began as a way of fitting in or being socially accepted by peers. I know this was my experience. I wanted to be like my older cousins. Their opinions and behaviors had great influence over me. [...]

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Breathing A Sigh of Relief

I have been going on for a couple of posts about my inability to talk about some stuff that has really been bothering me. Well, it is with a huge sigh of relief that I tell you that I was finally able to open up about these issues (the details of which I won’t bore [...]

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Riding Out the Ups and Downs of Life

Life is a series of ups and downs, ebbs and flows. There are many times in our lives when we notice that a significant amount of time has passed with no real calamities. But then… There are those times in our lives when it seems that nothing goes right. From the moment our feet hit [...]

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Taking Responsibility For Our Choices

Our choices in life, good or bad, are just that… ours. Because of that, we need to take responsibility for our choices. What may seem like a poor choice to one person may make complete sense to another. None of us know exactly how life is going to play out so all we can do [...]

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What Do You Do To Make Yourself Feel Better?

There was a time when my way of making myself feel better involved numbing myself… usually into oblivion. That was pretty much my go to answer for every situation that I encountered that made me feel… well just feel. It’s been a long time since I have used drugs to change the way I was [...]

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Getting Back To Center In Addiction Recovery

Many, many times since entering into addiction recovery and starting this blog you have heard me say that my recovery ebbs and flows. I’m either on point, full steam ahead or I’m just barely hanging in there… trying to survive. Lately I felt that I have been neither of those two scenarios. I have actually [...]

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Epiphanies: Slowly Building Up Life Skills In Addiction Recovery

So I’ve talked, almost a sickening amount, about how active addiction keeps us from developing life skills. But what I really haven’t discussed is how being in addiction recovery makes building up life skills possible. There I am driving down the road. I should be concentrating on, oh I don’t know… driving. But I’m not. [...]

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As For Patience… I Have None

From time to time we all struggle right? So what am I struggling with at the moment? Patience. Actually a lack of patience better describes it. There are times when I go along feeling pretty centered. Unshakable even. Right now? Not so much. I’m flying off the handle more often than I would like. So [...]

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Handling Things As They Come

Early in recovery I learned that is very important to handle things as they come up. What does this mean? It means not putting off any problem just because I feel like I can’t deal with it at the moment. It means facing problems head on. It means not saying, I’ll do it tomorrow… cause [...]

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