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Time, Something We All Need in Recovery

"All great achievements require time." – Maya Angelou, Pulitzer Prize nominated poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil rights activist, producer and director, best-known as the author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (born 1928) Do we ever have enough time to do all the things we want or need to do? If we’re [...]

Find Joy to Heal the Pain

"Find a place inside where there’s joy and the joy will burn out the pain." – Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best-known as the author of The Hero With a Thousand Faces (1904-1987) Some of us may be unfamiliar with Joseph Campbell, the man who wrote The Hero With a Thousand Faces. But [...]

Drug Abusers Don’t Recognize Emotional States of Others

A study of drug abusers found that they have trouble recognizing emotions by reading facial expressions.   Maria Jose Fernandez Serrano of the University of Granada tested 123 people who were abusing more than one of these drugs: methamphetamine, heroin, marijuana, Ecstasy, alcohol, and cocaine, and compared their results to those of 67 non-users. The [...]

Is Your Job Destroying Your Spirit?

Everyone says these days, “Be glad you have a job.”  But that doesn’t help the person who is downright miserable. Maybe you have an abusive boss or you feel like your spirit is dying in a job you hate. The thing to do is make a plan. Start thinking about what job you would like [...]

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