Thrive Global

We’re talking a lot about maintaining our physical health these days and that’s good. But we need to start talking about our emotional health. We need to know what the long term cost of collapsi...

Pre-Trauma Symptoms The uncertainty and unpredictability that are part and parcel of Covid-19 days, can place us under unusual stress which, over time can produce many of the same trauma symptoms as...

Messages in a bottle….. We are not strangers to unusual challenges in the addiction’s world. We have lived with chaos and unmanageability before and we have learned to use program principles to c...

Uncertainty is one of our most difficult feelings to manage. We humans like to wrap our minds around things, we like to know what’s going to happen. But do we? HHHmmm that’s the age old question....

To ring in the New Year I could quote statistics of how certain feelings benefit your cholesterol levels and pump up your immune system and extend your life by 2.3 years. We could discuss that scienc...

There is no more precious gift to give our children, our partners and those we love than our time. If you look at the faces of kids who are spending time with their parents, there is a quiet kind o...

Money is the genie in the bottle that we can turn into anything we want, it’s the Abra Cadabra of life, that magic elixir that can change everything overnight. Or is it? Social media has made us...

“…Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding…. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous th...

It’s dark because you are trying too hard.Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly c...

(partially excerpted from The Soulful Journey of Recovery Nov. 2019) One of the problematic issues for adult children is that some if not much of their mourning dates from a time and place in the...