Many of the exercises in my book The Law of Sobriety, begin with sitting quietly for a few minutes and just being still and breathing. Why is this so important? Because you have to step out of your everyday life, quiet all the chatter in your head and open yourself up to the honest, wise…

As I walk this road of recovery with my loved one, I need to remind myself constantly to remember two very important words, “forgiveness” and”compassion”.  I discussed compassion yesterday and today compassion. Forgiveness is a key component of my book, the  law of Sobriety, but is also one of the most difficult things to do,…

If you read the first paragraph of my blog yesterday I shared that someone I love has relapsed.  When someone close to you relapses you go thru many of the stages of loss similar to the stages of grief when someone dies.  You go thru anger, depression, bargaining (where you try to make sense out…

This week was challenging for me to say the least.  Someone I love dearly entered rehab and my mom had a stroke and lost eye sight in one of her eyes.  These were the biggies.  The less challenging issues were I did my first teleseminar and into it about 5 minutes, the power went out…

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