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The Last Post

April 21, 2023May 17, 2023 Stef P.4 Comments

“Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Hello friends, we have come to the end. This past summer, I had to ask myself if I wanted to a) invest the mental energy, time and attention it would take to increase my readership, or b) focus on other things… Continue reading The Last Post

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States of Flow

April 14, 2023March 26, 2023 Stef P.2 Comments

In thinking about what states of mind are desirable and what it takes to get us there, I find Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s exploration of flow to be most compelling. Most of us have experienced flow at some point – when your attention is so fully absorbed in an activity that you are undistracted by anything outside,… Continue reading States of Flow

Recovery

#Life Goals

April 7, 2023March 26, 2023 Stef P.1 Comment

People struggle a lot to meet goals, and there is a lot of writing on the subject. Hey, me too! I can write about it too! As a morbidly obese alcoholic with depression, I had a lot of behavioral health goals that eluded achievement. In fact, most of my life, I knew nothing but failure… Continue reading #Life Goals

Recovery

I Drink Alone

March 3, 2023February 4, 2023 Stef P.4 Comments

I’ll spare you the George Thorogood song. Like a lot of people, my early drinking was always with a group. Like a lot of people, a happy effect was feeling looser in socializing, and fitting more easily in with the group. Even when the drinking reached binge-status after hours of partying, no one was concerned… Continue reading I Drink Alone

Recovery

The First Two Weeks

February 3, 2023January 18, 2023 Stef P.Leave a comment

The first two weeks I quit drinking were terrible. I was obsessed with thoughts of alcohol. I wanted nothing more than to drink. I wasn’t a better person who didn’t need to drink any more. I wasn’t a more mature person who had learned better coping skills for her problems. I had sobriety in a… Continue reading The First Two Weeks

Recovery

A Chorus of Drinkers

December 30, 2022December 2, 2022 Stef P.Leave a comment

Drinkers, after all, find other drinkers. We tend to choose people who speak a certain language: Let’s go get a drink. Let’s have another. Oh, c’mon. Just one more… The chorus plays in the mind, liquid lyrics. The drinker who’s always game for another, who’d rather stay and drink than go out and eat, who… Continue reading A Chorus of Drinkers

Recovery

Addiction and the 5 Stages of Grief

December 9, 2022November 11, 2022 Stef P.Leave a comment

It’s the framework psychologists love to hate – Elisabeth Kubler Ross and David Kessler’s 5 stages of grief. A lot of this hostility is rooted in the misunderstanding that the expectation is that people march through these stages in order, when in reality, they are constantly shuttling between them – in denial about one aspect,… Continue reading Addiction and the 5 Stages of Grief

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