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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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How Do You Deal with AA Dogmatists?

It’s a provocative issue. I’m talking about the ones who say my way or the highway and conveniently forget the words in the Big Book such as “suggested.” I think the people at most risk are newcomers who are so turned off by hard-core dogma that they might not come back.