Out with the old, in with the new

I love the feeling that comes along with the new year.  It's a feeling of being given a clean slate, an empty canvas, a fresh start.  I don't know why on January 1st it seems easier to let go of the past than any other month of the year, but it does.  For me, the past …

Making Prayer a Habit – Healthy Habit #1

February is here, so it is time for me to give you all an update on Healthy Habit #1 - Prayer.  As I wrote in my last post, I made a commitment to praying out loud each morning with my husband using our prayer beads.  My hope was that our daily prayer would become a …

Healthy Habit #1 – A Month of Prayer

In my last post I talked about starting new, healthy habits instead of making new year's resolutions that I knew I would not keep.  I realized that adding healthy habits into my life would take a change of perspective about the whole clean-slate, positive-change thinking that comes along every January 1st, because when it comes …

The Day After

Well, I made it through Christmas.  It has been a crazy month, with lots of ups and downs.  I haven't written for a while, partly because it's been a busy month, partly because I haven't felt like it.  In the weeks leading up to Christmas, I suffered through some days of depression and self-pity.  As …

240 Days

Today I made 8 months sober. I posted this morning on my Facebook page that these past 8 months have been the best I've had in a long, long time, and that they have, by far, been my best months of sobriety. This isn't the first time that I have had this many days, but …