It’s easy to highlight ways of dealing with things but not so easy to put them into practice to do so requires friendship, support and courage. Throughout my professional life and work I have noticed that,when a person has a really good support network, and or a very special friend that person can summon upContinue reading “FRIENDSHIP AND COURAGE tags help support beginning”
Category Archives: LIVING IN RECOVERY AND WELLNESS
WALKING IN RECOVERY DEALING WITH MESS. TAG LEAVING PICKING UP
Have you ever had a friend called and asked you out for a coffee, part of you wanted to go but the house was in a mess, ironing sitting and no cleaning done? However you decide to go and enjoy being out, and then wish you didn’t have to go through that door into theContinue reading “WALKING IN RECOVERY DEALING WITH MESS. TAG LEAVING PICKING UP”
WALKING IN RECOVERY REVIEWING TAGS NEW YEAR GOALS
keeping up one’s confidence requires one to know where they are at in the walk of recovery, so it’s good to review our progress and consider /decide where to go next. The new year is ,by tradition ,a time of reflection and making new goals for change, resolutions we call them, and as you willContinue reading “WALKING IN RECOVERY REVIEWING TAGS NEW YEAR GOALS”
STOOPED WITH HUMILIATION
Walking in recovery is so often burdened by what we carry with us, and by our conduct towards ourselves regarding our behaviour, what we do not always remember is that we are a unified whole, made up of complex and yet simple systems which consist of groups which support the system and connect as aContinue reading “STOOPED WITH HUMILIATION”
WALKING IN RECOVERY WEIGHTED DOWN
Have you ever got up in the morning feeling that there were weights on your feet which you couldn’t move?The feeling of having been immobilised is phenomenal, and in many cases causes real despair.The question is can the weights be moved? In the last blog we looked at the story of Aladdin who, in theContinue reading “WALKING IN RECOVERY WEIGHTED DOWN”
In and out of my cave
Recently , when I was out and about I came across an article in a little magazine, written by a psychotherapist, she was discussing in everyday language, the behaviour some of us have or may be experiencing in coming out, to what we knew before the pandemic as ‘normal’ . I have, throughout my lifeContinue reading “In and out of my cave”
Sneaky
Sneaky is out and about, he thinks no one knows because he is furtive and slippy and slips in and out and round and about when no one is looking. AUH you say he lives in one of those slummy areas down town, but he doesn’t does he? He’s around everywhere, in fact if youContinue reading “Sneaky”
JOY AND PEACE
What sort of a person are you?How is it for you at the supermarket? The tinned music belting out stories of happiness and joy. I wonder what are the feelings which emerge for you at this time? I know for many there are feelings of resentment and almost disgust as they don’t feel happy orContinue reading “JOY AND PEACE”
SPREAD THE LOVE
When I began to write this morning, facing me on the screen sat the caption’Is your life today what you pictured a year ago? There is much in this as we begin the discussion on spreading the love. In the advent period we think of hope, love, joy,and peace interconnected and yet needing to beContinue reading “SPREAD THE LOVE”
HOPE AND HOPELESSNESS
In the journey of recovery and the pursuit of wellness there are times when we reach for hope, and are able to walk in it, this time of year as we wait in hope for the anniversary of Christ’s birth we may be able to grasp onto hope because of that wonderful story of immenseContinue reading “HOPE AND HOPELESSNESS”
aoibheann thoughtful reflections 