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12 Ways to Know You Have Crossed the Line and Think Like a Sober Person
12 Ways to Know
You Have Crossed the Line
and Think Like
a Sober Person:
Politics and Addiction
Politics arouse deeply rooted emotions and reactions. So do addicts and addictions. So do politicians suggesting that addiction and other problems can be solved by throwing more money at them. I get that.
Regardless of any particular opinions about any particular candidates, can we agree to support the wisdom and necessity of exploring how we as a society can positively impact individuals, families, and communities directly or indirectly effected by addiction?
Yeah, But
Don’t you hate it when you try to help people by showing them the nature of their wrongs and the errors of their ways, and they don’t see it?
. . . The old me actually felt compelled to try to “help” others in this manner. I just couldn’t resist sharing my insights with them, not that I tried all that hard to resist, because it was so clear to me what they needed to do.
Being a Human Bandaid
Our Guest Post this week is a touching article by a mother in recovery who learned to balance “Tough Love” with “Live and Let Live.”
Conviction and Compromise
When I came into the world of recovery I had it backwards. The “before” me was lacking in principles, and what flimsily masqueraded as them could easily be compromised for a drink or a drug.
Yet I was belligerently rooted in my convictions, my attitudes, my know-it-all opinions, blabbing away about the way it should be, according to me.
The Comfort Zone, Continued
Continuing on the topic of the Comfort Zone this week, we are pleased to share a recent post by Erica Troiani, the pseudonym for an Austin, Texas writer who is a member of ACOA (Adult Children of Alcoholics).
To Speak or Not to Speak
This week our Guest Blogger is Rev. Temple Hayes. Internationally recognized spiritual leader at First Unity Spiritual Campus, St. Petersburg, Florida, Temple is a prophet and mystic for our time. Host of the popular radio show, “The Intentional Spirit,” she is the author of The Right to Be You, How to Speak Unity, and When Did You Die? 8 Steps to Stop Dying Every Day and Start Waking Up. She is also a member of the Leadership Council of The Association of Global New Thought (AGNT). Visit her at www.TempleHayes.com.
Look in the Mirror and Make It a Rear View Mirror
It takes some digging even to find a quote in New Thought Science of Mind literature that acknowledges our dark sides, fears, and flaws. Our “character defects” as they are referred to in 12 Step work.