Thursday, November 29th, 2018
The Impossibility of Working Someone Else’s Recovery Program
If you walk in the footprints of others, you won’t make any of your own. When we are new to sexual recovery, we can be excused for thinking a...
Tag Archives: tools of recovery
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2018Gratitude in Early Recovery
Happy people are grateful for what they have, regardless of what that is. Many sex and porn addicts in early recovery (and sometimes even those with significant amounts of... -
Wednesday, November 21st, 2018Using Strengths to Help Overcome Weaknesses
Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth. Psychotherapists sometimes do a brief exercise with new clients, asking them to write two short lists: one list with 10... -
Sunday, November 11th, 2018Get Gritty
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness. Research shows that when kids are praised for being hard workers, they do better than kids who are praised... -
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018Healing Your Broken Relationship, Part 7: Expressing Gratitude to Your Betrayed Partner
In their book, Out of the Doghouse for Christian Men: A Redemptive Guide for Men Caught Cheating, authors Robert Weiss and Marnie Ferree list eight specific things that men... -
Monday, November 5th, 2018How To Help A Teen With Mental Health Issues
By Rufus Carter According to 2017 statistics by Mental Health America, 11 percent of kids aged 12-17 experienced a major depressive episode in the past year, and just over 5... -
Saturday, November 3rd, 2018Step Eleven: A Daily Spiritual Practice
You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul. Step Eleven, like Step Ten, is not a step that is worked once... -
Saturday, October 27th, 2018The Value of a Daily Spiritual Practice
Everyone should meditate for twenty minutes each day. Unless you are too busy. Then you should meditate for an hour. We might chuckle when we first hear the Japanese... -
Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
Step Ten: The Day in Review
We are the engineers of our own souls. Most recovering addicts work the tenth step on an as needed basis and at the end of each day. With the...