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Secrets Unburied: What to Do When Your Addictive Past Surfaces

Let’s get one point clear right at the outset. We all have a few skeletons in our closets. So, the fact that you have overcome your addiction and have more than a few secrets from your past life that you’d much rather keep from derailing your progress in recovery isn’t completely unexpected. In fact, it’s [...]

Efficiency or Effectiveness – Which is Better for Recovery?

"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." – Peter F. Drucker, American educator and writer (born 1909) In today’s society we hear a lot about efficiency. There’s fuel efficiency with respect to cars, efficient ways of getting work done, highly-efficient air conditioners, efficient gasoline-powered lawnmowers, efficient calorie-burning activities and so on. [...]

Regaining Trust – an Important Part of Recovery

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.” – Albert Schweitzer, Franco-German physician and philosopher (1875-1965)

Stay Fit and Healthy in Recovery

“Health is a state of complete harmony with the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.” B.K.S. Inyengar (Guruji), one of the world’s foremost teachers of yoga

How do You Measure “Success” in Recovery?

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen, American screenwriter, director, actor, author (born 1935) “Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” – Booker T. Washington, American educator, author, orator, and political leader (1856-1915)