Sobriety, Depression, and Answered Prayers

It's been a while! I haven't updated my blog for quite a long time, for various reasons. Yes, I am still sober. No, I have not been going to very many meetings in the last year or so. That's not because I am no longer focused on my recovery, I am. I've just found that …

Blessing or Curse? I Get to Decide

Today is my birthday, and birthdays always seem to invite a certain amount of looking back, reminiscing about the past, wondering how I got to where I am...if I'm even where I should be. I have been doing my fair share of thinking this week, leading up to today, about the things that have shaped …

Good Things Come to Those in Recovery

I've been neglecting this blog lately. I haven't written very many posts in the last few months, and I don't have any legitimate excuses as to why, except that life happens. I've been really busy with some new things that have come along, Good things. Really good things that I have been spending quite a …

Healthy Habit #11 – A month of do-overs

  I tried.  I really did.  But October was a horrible, awful, emotional, depressing month.  I wrote about it here, if you would like to see why.  I didn't even make it a week with my Healthy Habit #10.  I think I worked on physical activity for about 3 days, and then it went kaput, …

Healthy Habit #8 – A Month of Breaks (and an update on gratitude)

At the beginning of the year, I decided to try to add healthy habits instead of making resolutions, hoping that at least a few of them will stick and I will end the year healthier than I was at the beginning.  So far, there have been a few that have stuck, and those have made …

Gratitude – July 6

My vacation from work is over, I head back to reality tomorrow.  I am anticipating a crazy, busy day.  I will probably have at least 50 voicemails and probably triple or quadruple that in emails.  I will most likely have students, staff, and faculty in my office all day long.  I have a feeling that …

Healthy Habit #7 – A Month of Gratitude

It's July 2nd, so it's time for a new Healthy Habit.   At the beginning of the year, I decided that rather than making resolutions I knew I wouldn't keep, I would try to develop some new healthy habits that would, hopefully, replace the not-so-healthy ones that I have.  For this month, I had one all …

Finding the silver lining

Today I am filled with gratitude.  In fact, it's my theme for today.  In the rooms it's said that you cannot be in fear and gratitude at the same time, so today I choose gratitude.  I really have to be mindful though, because there is a lot going on in my life right now that …