Like all the arts, poetry can be used as medicine for your soul (https://poeticmedicine.org/about/). No training, experience, talent or skill is required when you use poetry as medicine, because the…
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A Trusty Recovery Toolkit Women in recovery face the challenge of dealing with trauma and its residues in the body, as a necessity for overcoming triggers to relapse. As people…
Addiction is not Unique On the path to recovery, women are often faced with paradoxes. One such paradox is the fact of “unique universality” - that we are both unique...
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Alcohol addiction is a serious disease that affects the minds, bodies, and spirits of women all over the world. Alcohol Addiction is a substance use disorder that has a strong…
Art as Medicine As the inspiring author Shaun McNiff explores in his work, art has the potential to create energetic medicine Within our own psyches, we can find, dream up,…
This post is part of a series of modern love letters to the 12 Steps. To start at the very beginning, read To Whom We Owe Our Recovery: Modern Love…
The Attitude that Shifts Our Mood Gratitude famously changes our mood in an instant. When we’re able to allow ourselves to recognize what we already have that we dearly appreciate,…
Wishes are Seeds While they don’t always come true in the timeline we might prefer, our wishes for a better life and a better world are important pieces of our…
Recognizing the Trauma Response For those of us with trauma baked into our life experiences, it can be an accomplishment in and of itself just to learn to recognize when…
The Power of Working with Thought On the variable, exciting terrain of the recovery journey, it is often helpful to address the role of thoughts in our addiction. As the…
