Addictions Suck. Rebuild Your Life.

Recovery is about revelation.
Healing comes afterward.
-Damon Toney, RecoverCast

Don’t go straight for healing, straight for a “better life.” Spend time understanding and accepting the hows and whys that lead to your current situation. Don’t be afraid of what you find. Accept it, change and move on.
Be well,
Damon

A friend once told me that I would never be able to separate Christ from my recovery. Guess what? I tried. He was right.
This blog is about addiction recovery based on my experiences. No matter how you look at it, there is one person at the center of it all: Jesus Christ. For seven years [...]

Notice: These pictures and the original article can be read on the BBC News Web site.

Read the article here. Interesting. I don’t agree with everything, but I do agree with this part:
“The reality of any emotional/mental help is that the healer can’t help beyond his/her level of recovery.”
The article is about different models of addiction recovery. The disease model is most common. I’m not a physician, but the primary flaw [...]

I wasn’t going to do it, yet here it is: a blog post about Michael Jackson. I grew up watching him dance. He was a better dancer than musician, a very good dancer: the best. Given my professional music training, it isn’t often that a pop entertainer deserves such a complement. Michael Jackson was a [...]

I’ve never understood the phrase pull yourself up by the bootstraps. Did it ever occur to whomever created that phrase that someone else killed the cow to make the leather. Someone else wove the thread, made the soles, inserted the grommets, laced the shoes, packaged it, promoted it, shipped it, received it, shelved it, helped [...]