Addictions Suck. Rebuild Your Life.

Here’s cool little ditty: My Three Rs for Recovery. Here’s an excerpt:
R is for Remembering
The strongest antidote to fantasies about “how nice it would be if I could x or y or z” (plug in your addictive behaviors), is to remember the destruction those behaviors caused. That means remembering the bad parts (there are plenty) [...]

A Quick Story:
Several years ago I checked out a book at the library about bicycle repair. At the time I was in graduate school and a bicycle was my main form of transportation, so basic maintenance and repair skills were needed.
Well, someone stole that book. Being responsible for it, I went online and ordered [...]

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 [...]

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’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 [...]

It never amazes me how often you see broken and beaten people rise from the ashes to help others in the same ways they’ve been helped. As a pastor friend of mine says, “You misery is your ministry.” There’s more to life than mistakes and poor choices.
Here’s an expert from The Providence article:
Marshall Smith may [...]