


Redefining Recovery with Jacki Hillios
Redefining Recovery | Mental Health Monday Dr. Jacki Hillios, MSW, PhD Monday, May 1, 2023 @ 11:00 am PST Redefining Recovery | #MentalHealthMonday In this presentation, Dr. Jacki Hillios, Deputy Executive Director of The Phoenix and TedX speaker, will provide insight...
Writing Our Way Home with Ann Dowsett Johnston
Writing Our Way Home | Mental Health Monday Psychotherapist & Author, Ann Dowsett Johnston Monday, March 6, 2023 @ 11:00 am PST Writing Our Way Home | #MentalHealthMonday In this presentation, bestselling author Ann Dowsett Johnston will discuss how writing can be...
The Expressions of Service: Exploring Our Gifts with Elizabeth Bishop
The Expressions of Service: Exploring Our Gifts | Mental Health Monday With Elizabeth Bishop Originally Aired on Monday, August 1, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST The Expressions of Service: Exploring Our Gifts with Elizabeth Bishop Service is energy, expression, and action....
The 5 Stages of Healing with Jill Rathburn
The 5 Stages of Healing | Mental Health Monday With Jill Rathburn Originally Aired on Monday, May 23, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST The 5 Stages of Healing With Jill Rathburn Just as there is a progression of addiction, there is a progression of recovery. In fact, recovery is a...
How Divorce, Addiction, & Abuse Helped Me Find My Power with Cam Kashani
How Divorce, Addiction, & Abuse Helped Me Find My Power | Mental Health Monday With Cam Kashani Originally Aired on Monday, May 16, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST How Divorce, Addiction, & Abuse Helped Me Find My Power With Cam Kashani We all have innate divine power and...
Not the Same Old Song and Dance with Annie McCullough
Not the Same Old Song and Dance | Mental Health Monday With Annie McCullough Originally Aired on Monday, February 28, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST Not the Same Old Song and Dance with Annie McCullough Annie is not new to recovery and she understands the ebb and flow of...
Loving Each Other All The Way Through
You can listen to this blog here: This story has a happy ending. I need to tell you that here at the top of the page, because things will happen in the paragraphs below that will make you doubt the ending. I don’t care for tension, so I am taking it out here for both...
The Undoing
I’ve come to know and believe that each of us has a soul message that only we can share, and if we don’t discover this message, the world misses out on a beautiful offering. Our message is within us when we are created, and although our childhood and other life...
Living Awake: Sarah Blondin and the Unraveling
This is a guest post written by Lori Ann H., who lives in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada and has been writing/ blogging privately about her recovery since 2016. Mindful Meditation It is fascinating to me the succession of events that come together in our lives by...
Braving the Wilderness: The Power and Limitations of “Tribe”
Braving the Wilderness In the history of me, there is before 2017 and after 2017. With every passing day of this year, I have taken my words and intentions and used them as a weapon – first against other people and then, in a much better use of my energies, against my...
Finding a Whole World Outside of the Cloud of Smoke
The post below, originally published at The Fix, was written by Rebecca Rush who attended a She Recovers retreat in Bali earlier this year. (This fantastic picture is a favorite from that trip!) “I knew something needed to change in my life and originally signed up...
Guest Post by The Muse Team: How Meditation and Mindfulness Aid Drug/Alcohol Rehabilitation
Relapse is common in early recovery from drug or alcohol abuse. Many long-term alcoholics and drug addicts fail the first time they attempt to quit. This is because the intense cravings experienced by substance abusers are actually due to changes in brain chemistry....
Guest Blog Post by Nuria Reed (Ekka Recovery): Top 5 Rituals for Recovery
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Will Durant (American Philosopher and Historian) “Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).” – Stephen Covey (The 7...
Guest Blog Post by Veronica Valli: Whatever the Question? Balance is Always the Answer
No matter how far down the road to recovery I go, I find myself from time to time, in a hole. Or, I notice that I am acting out in behaviors that are unhelpful to me. When these things become apparent to me I nearly always discover it’s because my balance is...
Guest Blog Post by Beverly Sartain: Find Your Recovery Footing Through These 5 Principles of Spiritual Psychology
I had the honor and privilege of studying Spiritual Psychology when I was 6 months sober. It was a 2 year Master’s Degree program that catapulted my recovery into full gear. By learning the principles of Spiritual Psychology, I was able to change my thinking and...
Malas as Meditation
More than just being beautiful pieces of jewelry, mala beads have traditionally been used for reciting mantras as part of a meditation practice. Mantras are simple chants or phrases designed to create soundwave energies that help promote creativity, spiritual growth...
A Return to Self – Bali Style
How does one capture a life-changing month of travel such as I just experienced? Hell if I know but I’ll give it a try. Let me preface this by saying that I am a recovering codependent – with a rather long history of being afraid of doing things on my own. A month of...
What Will Matter
In June 2005, I almost died when a cancerous tumor perforated my colon. I was quite sick for several months, and I had a lot of time to reflect on how fortunate I was to have survived. At around the same time, my friend Donna gave me a framed print of a poem written...
Giving Thanks is Easy
We enjoyed a very relaxing Thanksgiving long weekend here in our house. We had a lovely traditional turkey dinner last night and then Grandboy slept over. Grandboy sleepovers are one of the highlights in our life these days for sure. At this moment the little...