faith
How Spiritual Growth Enabled Me to Love Myself
This is from chapter 8 of my book, Facing Our Fears. I’m coming up on 25 years of continuous sobriety next month and it was good reading this again. It showed me where I was spiritually and emotionally back then. But several years later I would eventually figure out the whole Julia Roberts thing and … Read more
Why I Began My Search
An excerpt from the first chapter of my book. It was originally written in 2005 when I was just 9 years sober. I explain in Chapter 12 why I rewrote my original book and changed the title. But what I wrote back then is still relevant to my sobriety of 23 years now, and my … Read more
Growing In The Face Of The Unknown
To grow is to move away from what we already know in search of something new. Something better. To grow is to face our fears of the unknown while trying to maintain faith that we’re doing what is needed to feel better about ourselves. To love ourselves. To grow is to become happy with who … Read more
Hope And Faith
“It’s been said that faith can move mountains. However, for some of us non-religious types, having faith during troubling times is often hard. We need to have something to help us though, and this is where hope comes in. No matter how unfortunate my circumstances have been in the past, having and maintaining hope was … Read more
A Stronger Person Than We Were Before
“Fear can be our friend, or it can be our enemy. It just depends on how we handle it. Reassuring self-talk is my go-to method to help me feel better whenever I’m fearful, and I often find comfort in talking with others about how I’m feeling. But hope and belief is an important parts of … Read more