For daily inspiration while being sober in daily life, try focusing on a positive outlook and setting small, achievable goals. Consider exploring motivational quotes, practicing mindfulness, or connecting with nature. Remember, even small steps forward contribute to progress. Here’s how to incorporate daily inspiration into your routine: 1. Start the day with positivity: Mindfulness: Practice […]
If you are like me, you may have already prepared yourself before starting this commentary for another ‘you should’ explanation on how by becoming the observer of your thoughts, vs identifying yourself as being part and the same as your thoughts, you can move beyond negativity. To be clear, negativity as an influence to deal […]
Are drugs and alcohol what the devil replaced the forbidden fruit with? Ha!! Really, can there be a more apt parallel for considering that while we are born into paradise, there can be a fairly persistent temptation to just always want more. Take that to the most basic level of desire and it makes one […]
This may be the most simplified summary of 2 of the largest and most important aspects of mental health impacting escapism practices, often alcohol use. Sometimes existing hurts inside and no matter how we look at the reasons and rationalize their insignificance, we feel helpless over the power they have over us. FEAR is the […]
There’s a lot of focus understandably on the challenges and opportunities in the initial day, month and years of abstinence from toxic substances. There’s less support and direction for building on one’s mental health in ways that overcome those negative emotions that inevitably re-emerge with clarity in sobriety and present an obstacle to fully actualized […]
By nature we are instinctual animals and it is evident that the path to mindfulness and connectedness that we seek is in fact a return to our more natural state. Before social norms and laws started to provide direction for what was appropriate behaviour, we have always had a sense of intelligent instinct to draw […]