Recovery Coach Mark Sullivan

11/22/2024

November is gratitude month….Gratitude day 22.
Those of you who know me best, know what today means to me.
All those years ago, believing i was hopeless, helpless and unlovable. Shaking and sweating, needing alcohol just to make it through the next hour, day, week ..really the next minute. Sitting in the center of a self imposed crisis I could no longer postpone or evade,I thought my life was over.
But it wasn't. I had a singular moment, when gripped by something bigger than me, which brought me hope I could change. I noticed the goodness and love that pervades the universe, which is constantly being shown by the people around us. I saw that by being willing to throw all of that which I thought I knew away, I could become teachable to that which I did not. I realized that I could not only recover from my alcoholism, but I could help my fellow travelers to recover hope in their lives as well!!! I have. I have been privileged to help so many people back from the brink, that in this action I have been rewarded the one thing my life had been missing up until that fateful day. Purpose.
So during this month of giving thanks, and personal rebirth for me………….
All I really want to say is THANK YOU to all of those people who have trusted me to help them recover. Because without you all , I would not be the man I am today. ( if you try to call to catch up today please don't take it personally if I don't immediately reply, I'm doing what I do and working with a guy, then heading to the rescue mission to try to bring some hope to someone who really needs it . So a better way to do a thanks us by helping someone else feel like they actually matter again)
One love

11/22/2023

ODAAT

November is gratitude month….Gratitude day 22.
Those of you who know me best, know what today means to me.
All those years ago, believing i was hopeless, helpless and unlovable. Shaking and sweating, needing alcohol just to make it through the next hour, day, week ..really the next minute. Sitting in the center of a self imposed crisis I could no longer postpone or evade,I thought my life was over.
But it wasn't.
I had a singular moment, when ,gripped by something bigger than me, brought me hope I could change. I noticed the goodness and love that pervades the universe, which is constantly being shown by the people around us. I saw that by being willing to throw all of that which I thought I knew away, I could become teachable to that which I did not know. I realized that I could not only recover from my alcoholism, but I could help my fellow travelers to recover hope in their lives as well!!!
I have.
I have been privileged to help so many people back from the brink, that in this action I have been rewarded the one thing my life had been missing up until that fateful day.
Purpose.
So during this month of giving thanks, and personal rebirth for me…………. All I really want to say is THANK YOU
to all of those people who have trusted me to help them recover. Because without you all , I would not be the man I am today. ( and if you try to call to catch up today please don't take it personally if I don't immediately reply, I'm doing what I do which is bringing the opportunity to grasp those same freedoms to some people who are having trouble believing they can recover, then heading to the rescue mission to try to bring some hope to someone who really needs it .)
Because that’s what today really means to me, the day I’ve been gifted with the chance to help others to freedom.
One love
And thank you to way more people than I could ever cover on a social media post.

11/04/2023

Hey, November is gratitude month……
I am grateful for the time i spent on the dark side of life for without it I would never truly understand the light. For some people, like my wife, purpose and understanding seem to have been a natural state of affairs and something which came easy. Not the case for myself as I am an experiential learner. In the most basic phrasing I can use, I could not have become the man I am today in the absence of that which I am not. Every single mistake, every single misstep and every single bad choice I have ever made have taught me that I was not happy doing those things which in turn taught me to try other things. It was a process for me to discover my core principles and to learn to live by them. But the genius of life is that once you truly know something, you can never not know it again. This freed me to understand that I was never a product of my circumstances, which brought me the freedom to make and take responsibility for my choices. I guess, what im really saying is that I am grateful for being a bit of a slow learner, for in learning things slowly , i understand them and life, more thoroughly. Bless the darkness, and curse it not, for without it there is no understanding of that which the light truly is.
One love

06/22/2022

Accepting a person who is not consistent is difficult because it means you cannot depend on them to have unchanging values and ideas, which is another way of saying you cannot "understand" them. People often want to "understand" others to "know their place" for strategic self-positioning, which is ultimately about control and safeguarding their advantage. If you make a big life-change it may literally shatter those around you because they can only accept and "love" you "their way." They may judge you as unstable, but really they are unstable, which is why they may fall-apart as you move forward. It is really their illusion of knowing and control that has ended. The inconsistent person is free, and freedom is really what people fear most. Who says you have to be the same person tomorrow that you are today? It is a ridiculous notion. Change is inevitable. Your personal and spiritual evolution will always be seen as a betrayal by those whose values you abandon. You have a right to change your values, beliefs, and ideas. The discomfort you feel when you attempt to change is just the social control that surrounds you becoming more obvious and bearing down on you. There is nothing more spiritual than freedom and it is very spiritual to violate old beliefs for new values

06/21/2022

The less promise and potency in the self, the more imperative is the need for pride. The core of pride is self-rejection

06/20/2022

Fentanyl poisoning deaths in kids ages 14 to 18 is up 77%. 3 out of every 4 teenage deaths are from fentanyl poisoning. Talk to your children when they’re young- stay close to them and always let them know they can talk to you about ANYTHING.

06/17/2022

There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it. This is the real way out of fear. Your soul knows what's best...trust it to bring you home

06/13/2022

Success does not come to you because you want it. Success comes to you because you do the right things.

06/10/2022

Dr Jung told Roland
Roland told Ebby
Ebby told Bill
Bill told Bob
Thank God Someone
Told Me

Happy Birthday AA

05/27/2022

05/05/2022

Have you ever been around people pleasers? They tend to be displeasing. Being around someone who is turned inside out to please another is often irritating and anxiety producing.
People pleasing is a behavior we may have adapted to survive in our family. We may not have been able to get the love and attention we deserved. We may not have been given permission to please ourselves, to trust ourselves, and to choose a course of action that demonstrated self trust.
People pleasing can be overt or covert. We may run around fussing over others, chattering a mile a minute when what we are really saying is, "I hope I'm pleasing you." Or, we may be more covert, quietly going through life making important decisions based on pleasing others.
Taking other people's wants and needs into consideration is an important part of our relationships. We have responsibilities to friends and family and employers. We have a strong inner responsibility to be loving and caring. But, people pleasing backfires. Not only do others get annoyed with us, we often get annoyed when our efforts to please do not work as we planned. The most comfortable people to be around are those who are considerate of others but ultimately please themselves.