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Samsara explores life issues such as spirituality, alcoholism, alcoholic recovery, the 12 steps [Alcoholics Anonymous] codependency, relationships, being HSP [highly sensitive person or indigo or psychic or ...], how to manifest reality [law of attra
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Top 7 Drunk and Alcoholic Related Episodes as a Kid
Alcoholism is not just for adults. These 7 episodes reflect only a small glimpse into my alcoholic past as a kid; Episodes of drunken debauchery or alcoholic misconduct that jumped into my head as soon as I began writing after a friend tagged me for ...
What People Think of Me is None of my Business
What people think of me is none of my business. I want to, in tandem with episodes from my life, show how this philosophy gets reconciled with truth, peace, spiritual growth and integrity. And furthermore, how anyone can achieve this impeccable ideal...
Stop Drinking Without Alcoholics Anonymous
There are other ways to stop drinking besides Alcoholics Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous has no monopoly on sobriety, even though the [outside issue of] Courts sentencing people to A.A. meetings is becoming more and more common. Alcoholics Anonymous,...
A Relative’s Alcoholic Drinking Problem - A Memoir
Do you have a loved one or relative who drinks? This is a memoir of what I went through. Because of my own battles with alcoholism, I was finally able to love my relative completely and wholly without expecting her to stop drinking. Because I found ...
Alcoholics and Drug Addicts in Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are for alcoholics. Increasingly, though, more and more addicts-only as well as the dual-addicted person is showing up to meetings. How does A.A. address this? Does A.A. address this? Are "addicts only" welcome? Is it c...
Release from the Opinions of other People
Do you or have you spent a large portion of your life insuring that people like you? Have you bent over backwards for people you may not even know, only to try to get them to like you? Do you or have you ever extensively worried whether someone likes...
Sensitivity in an Insensitive World
Hopefully this article can delve a little into how we can make some perception shifts and small changes so that our *insensitive* world either does not seem so insensitive or, even better, that we begin to not notice the insensitivity! When we truly ...
Taking Care of Ourselves - Physically, Emotionally, and Mentally
How often I was at the whim of the world, constantly waiting for permission to take care of myself...But now today, after having developed my voice and after readjusting my priorities to putting my spiritual growth as a priority over societal expecta...
Rumors, Gossip, and the Truth
What do rumors and gossip have to do with the truth? What if the rumor or the gossip is based in truth? What if the rumor is true altogether? Is it then okay to continue gossiping or relaying the rumor?...
Help an Alcoholic to Stop Drinking
After several messages of friends online asking "How do I help an alcoholic friend stop drinking?" I knew, then, I needed to do something. Therefore I am going to offer some easy points. But before you take off with these points, I am sure to have so...
Manifesting into Physical Existence
I think I promised to speak more of this but, alas, since I last wrote, I manifested a new home, closed on it, moved in, painted, built a deck, stained the deck…etc. So I have been busy. Finally here I am and yet in about an hour I’ll be ...
Saying ‘No.’ Sometimes it’s an Entire Chapter.
I think we associate 'No' with negative as in negative feelings and negative consequences. I know I used to. As a child, being told 'No" was usually accompanied by a look or a tone. As a result, I think I grew up thinking No was just 'bad.' As a furt...
August Leo Reign of Royalty
This is the month of Leo. Enjoy browsing facts, images, painting, and art on things having to do with the August Leo. Learn what the element of Leo is as well as the planet of Leo and the ruler of Leo! Learn a little history or myth of how the conste...
