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Feeding Your Hope

"But what we call our despair is often only the eagerness of unfed hope." – George Eliot, the pseudonym of novelist, translator and religious writer Mary Ann Evans, one of the leading writers of the Victorian era (1819-1880) We hear a lot of talk about hope in the 12-step rooms. Some complain that they have [...]

Become Who You Are by What You Do

"We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do." – Martha Grimes, American author of detective fiction (born 1931 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) I can’t do it. I’ve never been a success. Recovery is just too hard for me. There has to be an easier way. Are these statements sounding familiar? At [...]

On Changing Your Thoughts

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." – Norman Vincent Peale, minister and author, best-known for The Power of Positive Thinking (1898-1993) How we choose to view our world makes all the difference in whether or not we feel that we are successful in our endeavors. And these endeavors take on all the more [...]

You’ve Got Attitude – Actually, You Should

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." – Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during and after World War II, also journalist and author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 (1874-1965) How often have we heard someone say about another: "He (or she) has an attitude" and [...]

How to Let Your Inner Spirit Show

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." – E.E. Cummings, American poet, painter, essayist and playwright, best-know as an experimental poet (1894-1962) If someone says that we aren’t spirited, or don’t show any spirit, and we’re in the early stage of recovery, [...]