If there’s anything we, who are in recovery, understand – it’s introversion. There’s a common thing that happens when many of us stop drinking or enter recovery, the process of finding out what our true interests are. It’s not unusual to realize maybe going out...
A few years ago I started a new job and during my first staff meeting, I was asked to share one unusual thing about myself. Without hesitation I shared with my new coworkers my love of Suzanne Somers. Now, to the unenlightened, Suzanne Somers is best known as the...
“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” – Desmond Tutu When my boys still wore diapers and could not eat grapes safely, we moved to a small seaside town in Italy....
When we decide to make hard changes in our lives, we find ourselves facing down our own personal demons. These demons – or Big Bads – come in all different shapes and sizes. My demon was alcohol. (Or at least that is how it first presented itself.) Your demon may be...
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...
WE DO RECOVER – AND SOMETIMES WE DO IT – IN CYBERSPACE When Taryn and I first sat down to identify a list of the women we think are doing great online work spreading the word about recovery, we soon realized that the list could get very long! There are so...
