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I Know That Feeling
Emotional Sobriety After Stroke: Sitting With the Hard Stuff
Managing Anxiety: Being Anxious About Anxiety
Putting Yourself First: Needs Before Wants
Rehearsing Recovery: What If Everything Goes Perfectly?
Do the Opposite—and Decide Quickly
Into Action Upon Awakening
Falling Backward Into Faith: Learning to Trust Through Fear and Pain
How Did I Come to Believe? From Willingness to Faith
Staying in the Middle of My Recovery
Trusting the Plan When I Don’t Like the Journey
Holding Grief With a Gentle Grip: Learning to Carry What I Cannot Change
When Disability Means I Can’t Be There
Only Through Acceptance Can We Change
What Judging Others Says About Me
Letting Go of the Arguments in My Head
What Does Right-Sized Mean? Finding My Place Between Ego and Insecurity
Seeking What We Already Have
Fear in Disguise
Thy Will Be Done: Leaving Room for What I Cannot See
The Architect of New Instincts: How Steps 6, 7 & 10 Change My Behavior
Moving Through Anger, Grief, and Frustration
Our Ripple Effect: What Are You Putting Into the Water?
Show-n-Tell Before the Art Show: Recovery Upcycling
Learning to Laugh Again After Stroke
When I Feel Like I’m Not Enough
Staying Active with a Vestibular Disorder and Chronic Pain
Listen to the Whisper Before It Becomes a Scream
Let Yourself Be Known: Stop Holding Back What’s Wrong
I Need to Do Happiness
Humility: Knowing Where My Job Ends
When a Hobby Becomes an Obsession: Taming the Creative High
What Would Make Today 10% Easier?
Change the Direction of Your Thinking
Learning to Rest in Stroke Recovery
Just Because I Can Doesn’t Mean I Should
Busy Body: Freedom To Do Nothing
When Your World Gets Smaller: The Hopelessness of Feeling Homebound
Willingness Is What Changes Us: The Lesson of Step Six
What Is False Pride? The Fear of Being Fully Seen
Taking Care of Tomorrow’s Me Today
Haven Point by Virginia Hume: Alcoholism, Family Secrets, and Generational Recovery
I Survived
You Don’t Look Disabled
When My Enthusiasm Exceeds Capacity
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Through the Lens of Disability
What Are the Four Absolutes?
Don't Wait Until Things Fall Apart
Giving Yourself Grace: Live the Moment You Have, Not the One You Planned
What is Sitting on the Throne of Your Life?
The Gift Hidden in the Wreckage: When Your Past Becomes Someone Else's Hope
Seeking Faith Without Understanding Can Be Comfortable
The Joys of Recovery: Rediscovering Me
Managing Cravings With Willingness
How to Grieve Sober: Letting Feelings Move
When I'm Disturbed, What's My Next Right Thing?
I’m Back: Recovery With Eyes Wide Open
Health Update
When Your Brain Says, "That's Enough": Living with a Vestibular Disorder
Rest Is Productive: The Reward is Quality of Life
Recovery Doesn't Take a Day Off: Acceptance Every Single Day
Trusting Others: When Self-Sufficiency Fails Us
Relief Is In the Seeking, Not the Understanding
Stop Rehearsing the Worst: Walking Toward Fear Creates New Evidence
Stay Curious To Stay Present
Learning How to Stay Instead of Escape
Relapse: It Takes What It Takes
Learning How to Stay Instead of Escape
The More We Give, the More We Get
Romanticizing the Drink, Romanticizing the Past
Freedom From Fear and Want: Trust the Future, Accept the Present
Justified vs. Unjustified Anger: The Cost of Holding On
The Wisdom of Waiting: Does It Need To Be Said?
Relieve Me of the Bondage of Self: When Pain Turns Into Self-Centeredness
Acceptance vs Being Taken Advantage Of: A Path to Gratitude
Meditation for Stroke Recovery
Step Two: Becoming Willing to Believe
Reads and Recovery: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Living in the Solution of Steps 1, 2, and 3: Control, Help, and Micro-Decisions
When Protection Becomes a Prison: Is Your Armor Your Weapon?
Freedom: Fear vs. Want
Poor Me: Never Too Late to Start Your Day Over
“I Can Figure This Out Myself”: How To Increase the Frequency of Hope
Living Gratefully: Gratitude Forward, Not Backward
Admitting Complete Defeat After Stroke: Willingness To Find Better Days
Joyful Discoveries In Recovery: Using My Body Instead of Abusing It
Growing a Conscience: What’s Your Motivation For That?
Untethering Shame From My Past: Using the Steps to Travel Through Life
The Program That Changed Everything: Learning How to Live
Rebuilding Identity: My Relationship With Myself
I Trust Me: Changing My Relationship With the Past
Medical Retirement: The Emotional Weight of Forced Change
Be The Bridge of Hope: From Demoralization to Liberation
Watching Reruns: Get Out Of Your Head
Talk to Someone: The Beginning of Everything
You Are What You Were: Breaking the Pattern
Just Be: The Peace I Was Missing
Crying for the Moon: But Choosing What’s Within Reach
Celebrating a Sober Decade: As Happy As I Allow Myself
Acceptance: Walking Through The Only Doorway Out