Five Years Later
My recovery from drug addiction started in 1987, but my recovery from workaholism began just five years ago – in February, 2011. The following is a very close-to-actual conversation that I had with my...
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Guest Blog Post by Nuria Reed (Ekka Recovery): Top 5 Rituals for Recovery
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Will Durant (American Philosopher and Historian) “Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to...
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Braving the Wilderness: The Power and Limitations of “Tribe”
Braving the Wilderness In the history of me, there is before 2017 and after 2017. With every passing day of this year, I have taken my words and intentions and used them as a weapon – first against...
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The Second Thing You Need: Attitude
When we decide to make hard changes in our lives, we find ourselves facing down our own personal demons. These demons – or Big Bads – come in all different shapes and sizes. My demon was alcohol. (Or...
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The Third Thing You Need: Other People
“To succeed, most people need a community of support.” – Cheryl Strayed Many of us are working on our recovery alone or piecing it together from various programs, therapies and online resources. These...
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Three Doors. It’s Your Choice.
Show me a woman in her late 30s/40s, whose life partnership is at least a decade old and whose kid(s) is out of diapers, and I’ll show you a woman who is about to say, “Wait. What?” to her life. This...
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We Are All Single Mothers
“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” – Desmond Tutu When my boys still wore diapers and could...
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My Resentment Gems
When she was three years old, my friend Christina refused to hug her grandfather. From that moment on, she was known in her family as someone who did not like hugs. She does not have a memory of this...
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