Recent Posts Tagged With '12 steps'

• The Lost Weekend

  Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 11:20 in Spirituality, recovery, alcohol, change, aa, na, surrender, codependency, booze, hepatitis, guilt, 12 steps

    Success – like poverty – is relative.   In 1994 after living in Spain I returned to the UK, ill once again and found myself in a homeless hostel. Someone sent me a postcard that said POVERTY IS RELATIVE with a cartoon sketch ...

• Make-Do or Mend

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 17:54 in heroes, recovery, debt, self-help, alcohol, truth, honesty, hope, prosperity, trust, surrender, guilt

    As wartime chic hits TOPSHOP, Oxford Circus, lets’s hope that diluted gravy browning up the legs doesn’t come back. In line with economic belt tightening even M&S have given up sexy voices on the telly, binned ready meals and t...

• Love ‘n’ Pain and the whole damn thing.

  Posted on Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at 05:09 in relationships, Spirituality, recovery, self-help, truth, acim, surrender, hepatitis, 12 steps, credit crunch, breathwork, rebirthing

    " In the quest for wholeness, paradox is at every turn. It is true that we cannot realise our wholeness as long as we deny any fragment of ourselves. If we seek to avoid fear or pain or sadness, we will simultaneously block the love and jo...

• Not my words

  Posted on Monday June 22nd, 2009 at 18:11 in Spirituality, self-help, alcohol, freedom, addictions, attachment, 12 steps, lifestyles, holotropic breathwork, stanislav grof, urban addictions, christina grof

  " In the flush of early recovery, I felt tremendous relief. Released from years of painful, reckless obsession with alcohol, I discovered a new sense of freedom. I thought that now that I was no longer drinking, I would be free to live my life u...

• Please release me

  Posted on Thursday May 14th, 2009 at 05:44 in Spirituality, sexuality, surrender, codependency, shame, 12 steps, family dysfunction, john bradshaw

    One of my pre-teenage memories of shame involved a launderette.  I must have been [...]...

• I iz certified

  Posted on Sunday May 10th, 2009 at 17:04 in life coach, therapy, certificate, elvis, intuition, 12 steps, lrt, sondheim, breathwork, rebirthing breathwork, breathworker

  When people ask me what I do ( like in my job ) I stumble - because every word I use conjures up a misconception. If I say LIFE COACH, I yawn before they do and if I say therapist they ask what approach I use as a psychotherapist, if I say " Brea...

• Pissed Off!!!??

  Posted on Monday April 20th, 2009 at 17:03 in Spirituality, self help, therapy, a course in miracles, acim, anger, guilt, attack, 12 steps, resentment

    City Life can get you down.   I Am Never Upset For The Reason I Think  is Lesson 5 of A Course In Miracles ( ACIM ) and the explanation starts with the statement that THIS IDEA can be used with any person, situation or event you t...