Recovery

Feelings May Not Be Facts, But They Sure Are Information

In recovery circles, you often hear the admonition that “feelings aren’t facts.” But nobody explains just exactly what that means; it is usually stated as though its meaning is self-evident. But it’s not self-evident. In fact, unexplained, that statement can easily lead the listener into making a huge mistake: i.e. discounting ALL of their feelings, …

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External Goal Achievement vs. Internal Spiritual Growth

Achieving major life goals is an important element of life’s journey. I enjoy it. I enjoy helping people I work with to achieve theirs. However, I have a nagging concern about goal achievement, especially as it is presented within the Life Coaching community. My experience is that, very often, perhaps most of the time, achievement …

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Trudging the Road of Happy Destiny

I don’t know about you, but in my experience, very often verbal sharing and written documents about recovery tend to idealize it; i.e. to focus almost exclusively on the positive or happy side of recovery and to focus on the elegant and idealized spiritual principles underlying recovery. To me, this gives newcomers and even people …

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Emotional Sobriety

“I think that many oldsters who have put our AA “booze cure” to severe but successful tests still find they often lack emotional sobriety. Perhaps they will be the spearhead for the next major development in AA, the development of much more real maturity and balance (which is to say, humility) in our relations with …

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