How Thoughts Paint Your Reality
How you can paint a more beautiful reality. Often, we take our thinking for granted using it as a GPS of sorts to direct us through life. We know …
Identifying and Letting Go of Insecurities
Here’s Some Helpful Advice For Identifying and Letting Go of Insecurities. If you have read “The Serenity Principle”, then you are familiar with the concept that insecurity is the …
How to find serenity by living in the present.
Try Living in the Present! As I have read and reread Joseph Bailey’s book “The Serenity Principle,” I feel very comforted by these words, “Serenity and wisdom can only …
Efficiency vs. Effectiveness
Based on the Effectiveness of your decisions, efficiency is only relative. I find that being a parent has brought on so many competitive and controversial subjects that I am …
Three Things I Hope My Children Will Learn From Me
Here are 3 things I hope I can teach my children that have helped me have a happier and more successful life! Sometimes I think of my family as the …
Gratitude and Happiness
Lower your expectations and increase your gratitude to experience lasting happiness. When it comes to happiness, I am starting to notice an interesting pattern in my life. In fact, …
Tips for holiday mental health.
How to experience less stress this holiday. It’s no secret that it’s easy to simultaneously enjoy and dread the holiday season. Many people look forward to each new winter …
Happiness, Gratitude, and Addiction Recovery
Thankfulness, Happiness, and Gratitude are essential to Addiction Recovery! The month of November was a joyful time for many of us. We get to see those far away cousins …
Mindfulness, Serenity, and Recovery
When the purpose of recovery isn’t to be just replacing one unhealthy coping mechanism with another. It becomes necessary to understand and have a high awareness of where our feelings of anger, sadness, loneliness, happiness, etc. come from and then be able to allow ourselves to feel without the need to “make” the “bad” feelings go away.
Addiction and Smartphone App Analogy
Addiction can be compared to a smartphone app. Like most Americans nowadays, I have a smartphone that I rely on to get through the technical aspects of my day. …