“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions” Claude Levi-Strauss so eloquently reminds us. One of the pivotal skills required in building our Emotional Fitness as we mat...

“I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me” … Dylan Thomas confesses. I often feel the same way. I first heard the term TERMINAL UNIQUENESS when I started attending drug and alcohol recovery gro...

“I will never, ever, ever FORGIVE you for what you have done!” Have you ever said these words to anyone or had them said to you? Sometimes people make emotional choices to live backwards, ...

“I can’t MEDITATE, it’s too hard, I can’t stop thinking and if I do I fall asleep.” Heard this before? Said this before? There are many ways to MEDITATE, like there are many ways to exercise.  It is i...

Our DOUBT is not our enemy. It is a word that simply describes the time our head, heart and body require to have a quick meeting to review the situation. DOUBT just buys us a little time to check in w...

There is no escaping the fact that we are TRIBAL creatures. People come and go, but every now and then we encounter a refreshing person who cuts through the superficial social crap and touches us deep...

  Any time we face life challenges an opportunity for a New Day’s RESOLUTION presents itself. Some of us only ever take the time to consciously commit to making a RESOLUTION or an important promi...

“Life is under no obligation to give you what you expect” … I was so pissed off when I heard this phrase early in my recovery. I was in my first year of getting clean and sober when ...

If we find we are being listened to less, it is worthwhile checking the level of UNSOLICITED ADVICE we may be including in our conversations. People tune out when we tell them what we think they shoul...

  As you start your day, do you mostly feel like Sleeping Beauty or the Grumpy Troll under the bridge ready to bring anyone down to dares to cross you? SLEEPING Beauty may be a childhood fairy ta...