Recovery Coach Lauren 4/29/22 Setting boundaries isn’t always easy or nice, but it’s necessary, spiritual, and empowering. Healing relationships in recovery takes time and effort on everyone’s part. As we know addiction fuels many fear based behavior and other dysfunctional interactions with families and friends. Some of these interactions and behaviors can be the need…
By Haley Kennedy, Recovery Coach – 4.8.2022 – “… Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation – some fact of my life – unacceptable to me. I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing…
“You can heal, and you can break the cycle.” This is something I heard often during many years of active addiction, relapse, and then while in recovery. I remember thinking, “That sounds like a lot of work!” but also a part of me believed it. I grew up with a father who was active in…
I will never forget when I entered treatment for the first or the millionth time and heard how I was powerless over all substances and that my life had become unmanageable. I remember thinking I could admit that yeah, I am here, I clearly have a problem and I can say I am powerless over…
By Haley Kennedy, Recovery Coach – 1.28.2022 – Try to line up early for a spot in a local homeless shelter. If you are not able to or do not want to go to a shelter, find a good place to sleep. This can include overhangs that will protect you from rain or alleyways that…
By Haley Kennedy, Recovery Coach – 1.14.2022 – In recovery, we learn a lot about honesty, open-mindedness, and willingness. These three concepts are integral to spiritual growth. Honesty, although challenging, can be fruitful. Open-mindedness allows us to remain open to hearing and trying new things. Willingness requires that open-mindedness; we must be willing to listen…
