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Recovery

Is There Happiness in Recovery?

They say that sexual addiction is baffling and might be the toughest addiction to recover from because of all the social triggers that may make a person succumb to urges and cravings. I know that sexual addiction recovery starts with total honesty, and it’s that rigorous honesty that… Read More

Mindfulness in Every Day Life and in Recovery

By: Joyce Willis, MC, LPC Have you ever driven someplace in your car and then couldn’t remember the entire drive or what you passed along the way? That’s an example of not being mindful that many people can experience daily. It’s the same routine and you place yourself on auto-pilot,… Read More

Decisions in Recovery

In “Fabled Truths and Family Lies,” published in the Meadowlark Summer 2010 newsletter, I wrote about a client’s experience with childhood sexual and emotional abuse, her skewed self-doubt, and her perceptions surrounding that abuse in her family of origin. Specifically, I addressed the challenges that arose for Leah as… Read More

Rigorous Honesty: From False Pride to Authentic Self-Respect

Note: This article was originally published in the Spring 2004 edition of MeadowLark, the magazine for alumni of The Meadows. By Kingsley Gallup While in our disease, we may have prided ourselves on many things – perhaps even our “honesty.” In recovery, however, we come to see the truth… Read More

Understanding Sexual Recovery

By Maureen Canning, MA, LMFT Sexuality is yoked with one’s being – the body, mind, and spirit. It is connected with one’s identity or essence. But as a culture, we have conditioned ourselves to experience and express our sexuality with a laser focus on physical gratification, the seeking of pleasure… Read More

Worrying One’s Way to Distraction

I come from a family of worriers, and I’ve done a lot of worrying in my life. I now do it less than ever, but there was a time when I thought I was a “worry addict.” Of course, a feeling of any kind can be “addictive” – we can… Read More