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What is SMART Recovery? SMART (Self Management And Recovery Training) Recovery is a self-empowering addiction mutual help program. It is the most widely available of the non-12-step group. It has […]

Total Recovery is something we hopefully work to achieve and maintain our entire lives. When you are in Total Recovery, you are: 1. Not addicting in any way. You have […]

We live in a Universe of paradox and polarities, conflicts and contradictions: • Light vs. dark • Good vs. evil • Creation vs. destruction • Life vs. death • Order […]

We all like to feel special. When someone NEEDS to feel special to feel good, then needing to feel special becomes an addiction, in a misguided effort to treat the […]

Be a little wary of your mind, especially of your default, automatic feelings, thoughts and responses. Left to it’s own, the mind can be a great troublemaker. The ego is […]

No one wants to be in pain. Yet sometimes being in distress is worthwhile because of the benefits it brings. Short-term pain does sometime lead to long-term gain. Examples include […]

As animals, we share with all animals strong, instinctive survival drives to gratify desires for food, water, sex, and comfort. We have strong drives to avoid pain, danger, or anything […]

No matter how skillfully we live our lives, pain and loss visit us all. We all have endured or will endure one or more seasons of great suffering. This is […]

A Zen master once asked me, ‘Why do you eat?” I replied that I eat to sustain my body. I then asked him why he ate. He smiled at me […]