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Monday Thoughts 7/8/2019

“Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.” ~~M. Esther Harding “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” ~~Mahatma Gandhi “We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ~~Anais Nin Statement #2 Negative thoughts destroy only myself. My first conscious sober act is

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Monday Thoughts 7/1/2019

“I dwell in possibility.” ~~Emily Dickinson “There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it by choosing different thoughts. However, choosing different thoughts requires focus and practice. If you continue to focus as you have been, to think as you have been, and to believe as you have been, then nothing

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Monday Thoughts 6/24/2019

“Recognizing and replacing the unhealthy thoughts, behaviors and feelings that may be sabotaging your best efforts is the key to building mental strength.” ~~Amy Morin “Everyone is comparing lives on social media and wants the perfect body, perfect image, perfect outfit, perfect life—we’re striving for the perfection, and it’s so unhealthy

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Monday Thoughts 6/17/2019

“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.” ~~Susan Gale “There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher.” ~~Usain Bolt “I like feeling strong. It keeps my mental floor higher.” ~~Pink Statement #12   I am a competent woman, and have much

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Why I Choose Hard

Everyone has her own reasons for choosing to be sober. Often the motivation is due to repercussions from a particularly devastating binge. Other times it is the culmination of a series of worsening issues affecting health, relationships, job, or all of the above. Once you are here, doing the work

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Monday Thoughts 6/10/2019

“I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.” ~~Gina Bellman “I am a part of all that I have met.” ~~Lord Tennyson “Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.” ~~Vera Nazarian

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Monday Thoughts 5/27/2019

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto

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