Self Recovery

By simply following a set of challenges, 7-Day Quit Smoking Challenge can help any smoker looking to quit - in just one week, as the title suggests. Moreover, it won't overwhelm you; the aforementioned practices found in each day take only minutes to perform.

Addictions come in all shapes and sizes, both in type and severity - junk food, alcohol, drugs, adult content, television, the list continues. There is no need to compare your addiction with that of others. This fight is between you and yourself. As I have overcome multiple addictions, I have learned what I needed to get through it. And I have found that positive changes are always required to break out of addiction. It is my hope that utilizing these 50 positive affirmations will help you overcome your addictions as well. 

Can meditation really alleviate stress, bring serenity, and, perhaps, improve your health? Scientific studies appear to show that they can. The evidence is clear. Meditation has been shown to help relieve stress, offer a feeling of serenity, and boost some health issues such as a lack of attention. However, while meditation promises a host of valid advantages and perhaps others unknown, it is covered with mystery. 

Alone. Forgotten. Ashamed. What do these words mean to you? What about junkie? Loser? To someone, these words become part of their everyday life. Does this mean they are no longer human? As the human race, do we completely understand the suffering others go through? And what do we do to help? Nothing.

Die Alkoholsucht ist eine Krankheit, die deutlich weiter verbreitet ist, als viele es glauben. Unbehandelt kann sie schlimme Folgen haben, doch ist es nie zu spät, diese zu bekämpfen. Unser Ratgeber ist für alle, die selbst unter Alkoholsucht leiden oder fürchten, auf dem Weg in die Sucht zu sein, sowie für alle Angehörigen, Freunde, Kollegen und andere Personen, die in ihrem Leben mit Alkoholsüchtigen zu tun haben.

This is never more important than when life takes a downturn in the form of a sick loved one. Love Heals is the true story of a doctor's journey from successful physician to patient facing illness after illness, until his life depended upon a heart transplant so risky, few hospitals would even dare to attempt it. At one point, the family faced the dilemma of choosing between an artificial heart or taking a risk of waiting for a donor heart when the patient was given 24 hours to live.

He likens spiritual awakening to waking up for the day. Our Old ideas are similar to the dream world of sleep. Sobriety and spirituality are the real world we wake up to. He talks about spiritual awakening in historic terms. How Rowland Hazard found out from Dr. Carl Jung that he would need a spiritual awakening to recover from alcoholism. Sandy talks at length about Dr. Carl Jung and the importance of spirituality for happiness, contentment, and sobriety. 

The power of the 12 steps to change our individual lives and working the program for ourselves; that is our own recovery. Cleaning up your own act, finding your own way in life by the 12 steps. Upbeat and enjoyable talks to uplift and inspire.

Warren Chisholm was 12-stepped, sponsored by and a lifetime friend of Clarence Snyder. He talks about his drinking and how it deeply troubled both he and his wife that he had no control once he took a single drink.