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 […]
Can you believe the stuff that gets marketed to us? If that’s an odd way to start this thread, consider the labeling that has been and continues to be constantly unjustly applied to people all the time through the media. It seems that the term ‘alcoholic’ may be one of the worst ever. Popularized by […]
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 […]
Sobriety is a much larger discipline than developing a logical aversion to substance abuse. It starts there for sure and we’ve spoken often on the path to retraining the neurological pathways that form habits to lead in different directions other than reaching for a drink or other substance. On this journey of self improvement, we […]
Costa Rica cherishes a puravida lifestyle incorporating blissful appreciation and easy going living. Its common to walk by a stranger who reaches out with the friendly greeing of puravida, puravida.Who would have known how life would evolve for this author in terms of interpreting just what that meant. Its so easy to be misled by […]
Move beyond fear of failure to recognize that the entire world is changing to support your sobriety. There is a fundamental shift in the paradigm beliefs of our society that have accepted alcohol as ok. The problem is no longer with us, it is with alcohol and it is not alcoholics at fault, but rather […]
Learn the gratitude formula that comes from sobriety and contriubution.