Latest Blog Posts for A Spiritual Evolution

• Reaching for god, Healing in the Mountains
  on Jun 16, 2015 in Faith God Happiness Recovery Sobriety Spirituality Alcoholism god hiking recovery sobriety spirituality
  I want to describe a moment of insight, but to get there, I’ll have to take you on a little odyssey with me.  The Enchantments are a chain of lakes carved out by glaciers in Washington’s Central Cascades – a … Continue readin...
• What is Goodness?
  on Jun 2, 2015 in AA Alcoholism Codependence Codependency Faith God Near Death Experience Recovery Sobriety Spirituality addiction god Gratitude recovery spirituality
  Words can be dead or alive.  My big, fat Webster’s dictionary devotes a full page to the word good, yet conveys almost nothing.  Definitions range from “making a favorable impression in terms of moral character” to “wholesom...
• On Wreckage and Forgiveness
  on May 18, 2015 in AA Al-Anon Alcoholism Codependence Codependency Recovery Sobriety Spirituality addiction Alcoholic wreckage codependency drinking Forgiveness infidelity sobriety
  The ironic thing about forgiveness is that when we truly achieve it, we realize there’s nothing to forgive.  We experience a shift of perspective, a widening of the lens we’ve been looking through.  The person we needed to forgive goes...
• Essential Prayers: Please and Thank You
  on May 5, 2015 in AA Al-Anon Alcoholism Codependence Faith God Recovery Sobriety Spirituality 12 steps recovery sobriety spirituality
  Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances… (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18) I ain’t a Christian, but them’s some wise words for how to tackle the challenge of living a happy and meaningful life.  For some, the...
• Reality, Denial, and god – Alcoholism and Codependency
  on Apr 20, 2015 in AA Al-Anon Alcoholism Codependency Faith God Recovery sober Sobriety Spirituality
  Reality is a tremendous nuisance to active alcoholics and codependents.  It’s so damn stubborn, but we’re more so!  We have a firm idea of how things really are and we’re stickin’ to it, however painful our grip.  The pain...
• Boundaries = (honesty + humility) x self-esteem
  on Apr 6, 2015 in Al-Anon Codependence Faith living sober Recovery Sobriety Spirituality Boundaries character defects codependence recovery spirituality
  The term “boundaries”  used to irritate me.  It’s always seemed such a pop-culture concept.  I guess it’s a psych term popularized during the assertiveness craze of the 80s – actually, I have no idea – but I fir...
• Being Right vs. Just Being
  on Mar 30, 2015 in Al-Anon Codependence Happiness living sober Recovery Sobriety Spirituality 12 steps Anger codependence recovery spirituality
  If you happened to see last week’s blog, I was pretty hot under the collar.  I have plenty of beliefs about anger, but none of them seem to show up when it’s flaring in my system.  “Anger rises up in … Continue reading ͛...
• Trashing AA as “Irrational”
  on Mar 23, 2015 in AA Alcoholism Recovery Sobriety Twelve Steps 12 steps Gabrielle Glaser Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous recovery sobriety twelve steps
  Maybe you’ve seen Gabrielle Glaser’s Atlantic Monthly article entitled, “The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous.”  Glaser, a self-proclaimed normie (i.e. non-alcoholic), attempts to illuminate the scam of Alcoholics Anonym...
• What the Heck is a Spiritual Path?
  on Mar 16, 2015 in AA Alcoholism Recovery Sobriety Spirituality Twelve Steps 12 steps addiction recovery sobriety spirituality twelve steps
  A number of people dear to me in AA just can’t seem to stay sober.  Their recovery looks hopeful at times: they’ll string together a few months or even a year, but then they go out again.  At some point … Continue reading →...
• Searching for Honesty
  on Mar 9, 2015 in AA Alcoholism Recovery Sobriety Spirituality Twelve Steps 12 steps recovery sobriety spirituality
  Honesty is such a lonely word. ———————–– Billy Joel It seems as if nothing should be easier than knowing what we want, knowing what we feel.  We should be able to look inside and, fast as checkin...

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