Moving Past Fundamentalism in Recovery
Several years ago I was at a meeting of Adult Children of Alcoholics. There was a new guy at the meeting, and he was clearly …
Inner Precedes Outer
This blog post is about how outer success in life most often must follow the inner work of healing and emotional and spiritual growth. I’d …
Remembering = Re-Membering
This blog entry is about childhood emotional trauma as a primary driver of active addiction, and about the healing process needed to sustain long-term recovery. …
Feeling and Revealing
“To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.” – Cecil Taylor Cecil Taylor is a jazz pianist who just happens to also …
Recycling in Recovery
This blog entry is about an important but neglected issue in recovery that I call “recycling.” In my experience, many people seem to believe that …
Big Life and little life
This is kind of an odd title, right? But I wanted to reflect on something that doesn’t seem to get much air time in …