16 hours ago by secondchancetolive

Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live my friend. I am happy to see that you decided to stop by to visit with me. In this post I want to share a joy with you. Several weeks ago I wrote a 3 part series, Traumatic / Acquired Brain Injury — Do Not Give Up on Your Dreams. In that series I spoke ...

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17 hours ago by The Discovering Alcoholic

The down economy has given new life to a term not used frequently since the Carter administration, the misery index. “The misery index is an economic indicator, created by economist Arthur Okun, and found by adding the unemployment rate to the inflation rate.” The economic and social cost of the esc ...

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1 day ago by hedra

So, the last note was really from the perspective of safe boundaries already in place. Which, I know, is often not the case. A lot of the time, the boundary-crossing is just not knowing what the roles and limits are in the new situation. Very common. But there's also the unsafe boundary crossing, th ...

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2 days ago by Bill

Old Relationships, New Possibilities | Tricycle Magazine In Tibet They say there is a lake where, during a particular full moon each year, the seal-like creatures who live there gather fish in their mouths and offer them up to hordes of owls who hover in the trees above, waiting to eat. There is no ...

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3 days ago by admin

In the Alanon 12 step program you learn that you didn’t cause your loved one’s alcoholism, you can’t control it and you can’t cure it. This is also known as the three C’s. It was slogans like these that use to drive me crazy. I could grasp that I didn’t cause my wife’s alcoholism, but I can’t contro ...

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3 days ago by Geena is... freckles and realisim

For as long as I can remember I have been billed as the no-nonsense, hard-core, self sufficient bitch on the outside. I don't need anyone. I don't need anything. I've got it. I just tell the truth, sometimes that's not awesome. Men? I like them, but I don't need them. For as long as I can remember, ...

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4 days ago by secondchancetolive

Although our lives may be impacted by a traumatic / acquired brain injury or by some other disability there is good news. We don’t have to be disabled because of our disability, discouraged because of our deficits or limited because of our limitations. We can let our light shine brightly. “Do what y ...

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4 days ago by admin

Custom Search Step 4 in the Alanon & Alcoholics Anonymous 12 step program asks us to make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. What a scary thought! If someone where to ask me what kind of a person I am, and I were to answer honestly, I would say that I am a good person. I was rais ...

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23 days ago by secondchancetolive

My choice would determine whether I would be empowered– because of my reaction / button — or if I would continue to believe that I was a victim / martyr because of my reaction / button. I could take ownership and responsibility for why I reacted to the facilitator and examine what I needed to resolv ...

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23 days ago by secondchancetolive

Over the next several weeks I continued to brood over the experience that I had encountered at the group and with the facilitator. Although I had vowed to myself never to return to the group, I realized that I was running away from some unfinished business. Consequently, last night towards the end o ...

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