The most common partnership mistakes people in recovery make. In this LIVESTREAM, Jim explores common misconceptions and otherwise bad ideas that we bring to our relationships in recovery and offers healthier tools to improve our intimate connections.
Overcoming the Fear of Reaching Out
In our next livestream, Jim explores common ways in which anxiety and insecurity are obstacles to recovery. Overcoming these requires mindfulness, action, and tons of accountability. Join us and get some tips for getting out of your own way.
The Fear of Commitments (to Ourselves)
We are people who fear making commitments to ourselves. We have been disappointed so often that we came to see it as acceptable to let ourselves down.
Livestream: The most common partnership mistakes
The most common partnership mistakes people in recovery make. In this LIVESTREAM, Jim explores common misconceptions and otherwise bad ideas that we bring to our relationships in recovery and offers healthier tools to improve our intimate connections.
Recovery On the Hard Days
I’m grateful for the ways in which my Higher Power reminds me – usually through the good people in my life that in the grand scheme of things… my annoyances today are over very trivial matters.
Expectations of Self Lead to Resentment
I’ve learned that the expectations and standards we hold ourselves to serve as guiding principles in our lives. Like many in recovery, I found myself repeatedly crumbling under the weight of the demands I placed on myself, the pressure I put on myself to juggle an impossible number of undertakings, and the absence of support that I allowed myself.
Boredom In Recovery Is a Red Flag
One of the very best additions counselors I know refers to ideas like boredom as, “Beautiful lies I tell myself.” I’ve come to see boredom as a lack of imagination and an avoidance of responsibility. It’s often a product of procrastination and/or insufficient investment in self and others.
How Do I Let My Walls Down?
Nearly everyone I’ve ever served as a therapist or as a coach has said to me, “You’ll have to be patient. I have trust issues.” My response to that statement depends on how good I think their sense of humor is. What I’m most likely to say is, “Relax. We all do.”
Taking Compliments & Why It Matters
We are people who desperately want praise, recognition, affirmation and validation. Sadly, we are also uncomfortable receiving them and so we often reject (minimize, water down) kind words.
Stop Sabotaging Love!
Childhood abuse and neglect, adolescent and young adult trauma, it all adds up in layers like sediment that can’t be permeated.