The New York Times ran a video series last year, “Lives Restored,” portraits of survivors of mental health battles and their coping strategies. They produced a few videos that featured the people struggling and talking about how they cope. I hope you’ll watch at least one of these short (too short) videos. I especially like [...]
It is for Bill Clegg. I’m just finishing reading his latest sobriety memoir, “Ninety Days.” It reads like lightning and provides some of the best descriptions of shame, addiction, hiding, lying…that I’ve ever read. Here’s his book, Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery . Here’s a quick clip of Bill:
You might think that “abuse” means just physically-abusive situations, that crazy couple in the neighborhood who fight so loud everyone can hear it, kids screaming and crying, too, and they nearly burn their house down…but before it gets to that, the cops show up and shove an angry man into the back of a squad car… Sure. [...]
I’ve been witness to two lessons from nature over the past several months. Both out in my garden and inside my house: One: Given a roomy pot and some fertilizer a near-dead plant will flourish. Two: A good pruning can re-focus a plant’s energy and allow it to flower. We grow when the environment is [...]
How often do you over-think things? Making an exit? Opportunities? Big decisions? Small decisions? Or just…buying a simple chocolate-chip cookie? Here’s how it goes down: A thought comes – “Mmm, oh, it would be nice to eat a cookie. A warm, chocolate-chip cookie.” Simple. Unless you put a “simple” thought like that through the mind of an [...]
