Overflowing Toilets
So yesterday evening, my daughter came running out frantically from her bedroom, “Mom! The toilet is flooding the bathroom!”
Can Dailies Transform Your Life?
People who are well-versed in addiction recovery are familiar with the term “dailies.” For an addict, dailies include small actions they commit to on a daily basis to ke
Keeping the Focus on Ourselves
Recovery is all about developing new attitudes.
Chronicles of Anger
Thanks to Alicia for this beautiful guest post about her experience with anger in recovery.
Self-care or Selfishness?
Like almost every principle of recovery, this concept was something that I just didn’t get before hitting my rock bottom.
Video: What Does God-Centered Love Look Like?
SA Lifeline sees recovery as an ongoing process of living with God at our center, “One Day At A Time.” But what does God-centered love look like?
To Remember or To Forget
Do you ever feel confused about whether recovery is a journey about forgetting or remembering?
Have you seen this TED Talk about Addiction?
When I heard this TED Talk, “Everything You Think You Know About Addiction is Wrong,” Johann Hari’s approach to this sensitive topic brought tears to my eyes.
What does One Day At A Time mean?
“One day at a time” means focusing your energy on living well today — just today — rather than being overwhelmed by past regrets or future worries. It’s a cornerstone of 12-step recovery: you don’t have to fix everything at once, only take the next right step, today.
This is HOW the program works
As I was studying in Working the S-Anon Program this week, I came across some great material about the HOW of the program.