If you are new here, this is the best place to begin.
Continue reading “Start Here: Raise Your Standards”Recovery Beyond AA: Identity Theft
Alcoholics Anonymous does not just ask people to change their behavior. It asks them to keep introducing themselves by the name of what nearly destroyed them, then calls that recovery.
Continue reading “Recovery Beyond AA: Identity Theft”Discipline Dispatch: Discipline Is Not a Mood
Discipline is not about how you feel. It is about what you do when the feeling is gone.
Continue reading “Discipline Dispatch: Discipline Is Not a Mood”Recovery Standard: Standards Replace Rules
Rules get replaced by standards.
Continue reading “Recovery Standard: Standards Replace Rules”Recovery Standard: Maintain Autonomy
Autonomy has to be maintained. It does not maintain itself.
Continue reading “Recovery Standard: Maintain Autonomy”How to Build Purpose in Recovery
Getting sober does not automatically make life meaningful. It just gives you the chance to stop destroying yourself long enough to build something that is.
Continue reading “How to Build Purpose in Recovery”Discipline Dispatch: Give Everything You Have
You do not have to be the best.
Continue reading “Discipline Dispatch: Give Everything You Have”Recovery Standard: Discipline Internalized
At some point, discipline stops being something you practice and starts being something you live.
Continue reading “Recovery Standard: Discipline Internalized”Recovery Beyond AA: False Success and Real Failure
Alcoholics Anonymous has been called the gold standard for so long that most people never question it. But when you look past the slogans and success stories, what gets called recovery often looks more like survival than freedom.
Continue reading “Recovery Beyond AA: False Success and Real Failure”Discipline Dispatch: Discipline Lives in Quiet
Discipline lives in the quiet.
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