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How To Practice Self-Compassion in 6 Steps | The Fix I’ve heard people say, “My worst day sober is better than my best day drunk.” I can’t relate.

Self-Compassion: The Often Missing Ingredient in Healthy Eating Mindful eating often starts with a kinder outlook toward ourselves. From there, we're in a better position to make decisions about foods that satisfy hunger.

One of the biggest stumbling blocks that I've encountered in my own recovery...

How To Stop The Comparathon! - One Good Thing by Jillee I have found myself in an extremely ironic situation this past month. One in which I am enjoying some of the greatest success of my career with the publishing of my book “One Good Life” and yet at the same time feeling some of the most overwhelming feelings of insecurity and inferiority I’ve ever ex...

To acknowledge and own our grief is one of the hardest parts of our healing journey....remember, you are not alone.

Grieving The Loss of a Child Who Still Lives. Addiction in the Family.

Choose one to try for one day.

Boost Your Happiness: 10 Mindfulness Tips for Busy People - Tiny Buddha If you've been extra busy and can't find time to meditate, try one of these simple mindfulness practices to boost your happiness.

Chestnut Bud To Avoid Making Repeated Mistakes How do you ever know if you made the right decision or the wrong decision. If the outcome is good, does that mean the decision was a good one? If the outcome is bad, is it a reflection of the decis…

What's the first step of habit change? Going off autopilot! | SMART Recovery® - Carrie Wilkens, Clinical Director of the Center for Motivation and Change Changing behavior requires self-awareness. Changing a well-worn habit in particular requires that you move it from "automatic" to "conscious" so that you can make other behavioral choices. For example, if you don't even noti...

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The Six Family Roles in Addiction Understand the impact of addiction on family and how to deal with it.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new. ~Dan Millman, author: "Way of the Peaceful Warrior"

A Roadmap to Helping an Addicted Loved One Enter Treatment Finding help can be frustrating and confusing—here's how to approach it.

When Your Loved One Is Struggling With Addiction | TryTyLife | Blog Is your loved one struggling with addiction?  Whether it is a child, a significant other, family member or friend, addiction can be an emotional battle for ever...

Dad Receives Coded Text Message From Son, Immediately Rushes To Help Him. Picture this. It’s getting late and you get a call from your teenager while they’re...Read More »

A 75-Year Harvard Study Has Revealed The One Most Important Factor In Human Happiness Have you ever heard of the Harvard study that ran for 75 years to assess what makes us happy? It’s a revolutionary study in psychology.…

Perfect example of "awfulizing" and a tool to help you stop!

This will be awful. “I have a job interview,” she tells me. “That’s good,” I say. “I’m scared sh*tless.” “That’s not.” She’s never had a job inte…

The dangling man For months she has been miserable in a relationship with a man she describes as needy, smothering and manipulative. “I feel like I’m his mother,” she tells me. “So end it,& #…

You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you - The Oatmeal This is a comic about the backfire effect.

What Iceland knows about preventing teen drug abuse that the rest of the world doesn’t It isn't fear, and it isn't shame. It's something much more effective.

The value of practicing mindfulness for addiction recovery and life in general:

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Lawyers   The greatest stumbling block in true communication is the tendency to play lawyer.  ~ Muriel Schiffman   Last week I talked to two lawyers. One was an actual attorney, the other an amateur. Both …

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This is Your Anxious Brain on Meditation - Mindful Mindfulness asks us to simply notice the storylines we create in our minds without trying to change them. Meditation gives us the space to choose not to react to those things that trigger our anxiety.

Seven kinds of personal power  .  .  .  .  .  . . . If you love an addict, or live with one, or depend on one in some way, you are probably in, as the old saying goes, nine kinds of pain. And I’m guessing that, whether or not y…

Mindfulness: What is it? | SMART Recovery® By Bill Abbott, MD I’ve heard much talk lately about Mindfulness with many questions about how useful it might be, so it seems timely to write about it here. First Mindfulness or Mindful Awareness as I like to call it, is not new, in fact, it is over 2500-years-old. It’s part of the teachings of a m...

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How Complaining Rewires Your Brain for Negativity Research shows that most people complain once a minute during a typical conversation. Complaining is tempting because it feels good, but like many

Dog I’d like to introduce you to my dog. Please look down.  You’ll find him attached to my ankle. That’s where he lives, more or less.  Sometimes he draws blood.  But mostly he just h…

What it Really Means to Hold Space for Someone Do you want to be there for a loved one, but don't know how? Here are some techniques to help you 'hold space' for people in need.

Self Compassion It’s all too easy to be extremely tough on ourselves; we need – at points – to get better at self-compassion. Here is an exercise in how to lessen the voices...