Please read Part 1 and Part 2 for context. Thank you. Through owning and respecting my boundaries, I have come to value where I end and where other people begin. When I maintain healthy boundaries, I am able to keep the focus on what is my business and what is not my business. When I mind my own bus ...
Please read Part 1 and Part 3 for context. Thank you. Such behaviors undermine the individual’s ability to experience their destiny. These limiting behaviors manifest when personal responsibility is discarded as trivial, while seeking to hold other people accountable for choice, happiness and discon ...
Please read Part 1 for context. Thank you. In my experience I have found that as I am honest, family and friends are more accepting of me. These individuals love and embrace me for who I am as an individual who experienced a brain injury. I have also found that some family members and friends are un ...
Aloha students, I hope this finds everyone well. Please write some intelligent words based on your understanding of this module. This is a good time to pose questiosn to demystify anything that needs clarification
I saw this phrase on a recovery blog today, namely from someone responding to a post of mine about my frustration with my new job, job hours, one supervisor and more here in Odessa, Texas. For people like me who, by nature, nurture or some combination thereof, are somewhat loners in general, and/or ...
I know who I am. Every now and then I experience moments when the connection to my inner and Knowing Self is not flowing at optimum capacity. I always picture the bar graph on the computer screen that indicates signal strength in the internet connection. I can feel when mine is weak. Over the years ...
The new addictions course that is available on-line this week at PAHA is “Understanding Codependency and the Creation of Healthy Relationships”. This is a 6-hour course that is also available at our on-line training center anytime at http://substanceabusecounselortraining.com which covers the topic ...
Hope is all around you. You can find it in nature, in a child’s laugh, a visit with a friend. Hope is sustaining, it helps to get you through another day. Sometimes it feels like you are clinging to hope like a lifeboat, adrift in a sea of guilt and despair. Occasionally, you [...]
Step 10. Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. Step 11. Sought, through prayer and meditation, to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. Step 12. Having ...
Contributed by Irene Watson, MA Learning to say “No” is one of the most difficult parts of recovery, but it is also one of the most effective ways to take back control of our lives. Think of “No” as equivalent to owning a power tool. Failure to say “No” is equivalent to giving up our power. We all h ...
