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Do You Understand Detachment? I’m off at 6 in the morning for golf, so an early blog! For years, I have heard about detachment, often loving detachment. As the child of an alcoholic who went on to be a practicing addict in several areas, it is not a term I understood, particularly with the word loving and detachment used together. I saw the following, and it struck a chord! Today I will practice detachment by letting go of things. I can't control. Detachment means... Read More
Can You Confess? And Why? One day this week, I had a response to a blog about being honest with yourself in taking a personal inventory. It was great to get a response; it’s nice to know someone actually reads what I write. The response was about being a former Catholic and the real benefit she saw in the Catholic tradition of confession. It is a great lead in for me in my personal review of some of the footprints that occurred years ago in my journey. 12 step programs call it step f... Read More
On A Run of Bad Luck? And Wonder Why? For a long time I thought I was on a run of bad luck! My wife had left me, friends were pulling away, and nothing seemed to come together at work, not to mention I never won the lottery or even a lucky draw? Ever had that feeling?? Just plain bad luck. It’s funny after I decided to seek help and turn my life into a positive journey, how strange and positive “coincidences” started to happen. While not winning a lottery (yet), I did win a new... Read More
Sick As Your Secrets?/Transparency What a great reminder tonight, and it tied in to closing off my personal inventory. I, like many others, had secrets buried deep inside of me that I honestly thought I die with. No one ever had to know. Today I am aware that these secrets caused guilt and shame daily, and some I had buried so deep that in my own Disneyland, they were off the radar screen. I’d heard people say you are only as sick as your secrets. As I started my journey to a new l... Read More
Are You A Friend of You? In doing an inventory, this was one of the questions I asked myself. I continue to ask it on a regular basis. How would I feel about doing or witnessing certain actions to or being done to a friend? In this context, I’ve inflicted things on myself I’d never wish on another person, and allowed things to happen to me that I’d stop if I saw them being done to a friend! This was and sometimes continues to be a shocking truth! As Eleanor Roosevelt is... Read More
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