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11/27/2023

Weekly Meditation. Enjoy.

"And if we decide to stop relying on our addictions, we may face another period where we lose our footing again as we learn to navigate our emotional world without them."

WEEKLY MEDITATION He who dares, loses his footing for a time. He who dares not, loses himself. -Soren Kierkegaard Our addictions attempt to serve many important emotional purposes. One of these is footing. Often our addictions develop to create an emotional footing when we are otherwise unable to do...

10/15/2023

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"If we hope to challenge our addictions, it is important to befriend the mind and to become aware of the conditioned patterns getting in the way of its comfortable expression."

WEEKLY MEDITATION For one who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his very mind will be his greatest enemy -Bhagavad Gita One way of describing the underlying motivations that drive addiction is as an attempt at mind control. There is

10/09/2023

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"Sometimes recovery takes years of pursuit with little obvious traction before the right components come together and the desired results emerge."

WEEKLY MEDITATION Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before -Jacob A.

10/01/2023

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"Our addictions act as anchors. As destructive as they may become, they originate out of a quest for stabilization and regulation."

WEEKLY MEDITATION One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time -Andre Gide Our addictions serve important purposes. They are not undisciplined frivolous indulgences nor are they simply the result of automatic reactions to neurological demands and...

09/24/2023

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"Even before we got lost in the obsession associated with our specific addictions, we might be able to recognize that there was an underlying pattern of our using behaviors, substances, and/or relationships to regulate our mental states in an attempt to wrest a more enjoyable experience of life."

WEEKLY MEDITATION The quality of the mind becomes the quality of our lives -Diana Christinson There are so many ways in which the use (and misuse) of our mind influences our experience of life. At their core, our addictions are used as short-cuts toward a more comfortable mental experience. Even bef...

04/30/2023

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"Recovery is a learning process much more than it is an abstinence process, and all learning processes are fraught with mistakes and missteps."

WEEKLY MEDITATION Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill Recovery is an imperfect process. There is often an expectation that recovery should be linear and move in a consistently positive direction, but it does not. Even if one adheres unerringly....

04/09/2023

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"What becomes an obsession with a particular substance or behavior, usually starts as an unconscious pattern of self-soothing."

WEEKLY MEDITATION Things do not change; we change -Henry David Thoreau The process of addiction recovery is one deep inner change. Often, we initially facilitate this inner process with changes made to the external structure of our lives—moving to new surroundings to avoid emotional and familiar t...

03/27/2023

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"Before they harden into obsessions, addictive patterns offer a feeling of relief, transcendence from underlying discomfort."

WEEKLY MEDITATION The unexamined life is not worth living -Socrates These are bold words. And more directly related to the process of addiction recovery, they could not be. Whenever we find ourselves trapped within a rigid emotional pattern that we did not consciously choose, it indicates that we ha...

02/12/2023

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"So any process of healing from serious addictions will have many twists and turns as we navigate new and necessarily uncomfortable emotional territory, carving new experiences, relationships, along the way."

WEEKLY MEDITATION The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. -Theodore Roosevelt Recovering from our addictions is an imperfect process. If it were easy to transcend our addictions, then we would simply do so. There would be little need for intervention, rehabilitation...

01/22/2023

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"Almost inevitably, the path to recovery will ask that we break through the very mental patterns that attempt to keep us safe up to this point."

WEEKLY MEDITATION Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything -George Bernard Shaw Recovery means changing the very nature of the way we process discomfort. It means taking a closer look at both what has led to an underlying difficult experie...

01/08/2023

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"No one gets to avoid experiencing the many discomforts that come with the human experience."

WEEKLY MEDITATION The burden of self is lightened when I laugh at myself -Rabindranath Tagore Today’s quotation brings up two important points. First and foremost, it mentions the ‘burden of self’, a concept at the very heart of addictive patterns. Much of life is unavoidably burdensome. If we...

01/01/2023

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"We should, in fact, know when it’s helpful to allow others to influence our decision-making process during times when strong emotional reactions may be clouding our ability to see and act clearly."

WEEKLY MEDITATION You alone can do it, but you can’t do it alone. -O. Hobart Mowrer It is up to each recovering person to take sole responsibility for the direction of their life—and, of course, for their recovery. This does not mean that we should ever try to be free of influence, support, and

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