Despite all my progress and improvements into lower levels of “successful moderation”, it was still to much. My body has continued to tell me so. But when you have already given up so many mainstream things, how do you give up another big one?
Exploring How Addictions “Serve” You
When you are trying to remove something from your life that you are addicted to, you have to reflect on when and why you do it. Often there are several reasons. I currently think for alcohol I have several: To Celebrate Society and all advertising has imprinted this so deeply into our programming that there…
Face the Realities
When it comes to addictions, there seems to be no “moderation” that is also at peace.
The Elephant in my Health Room
According to society and metrics, I don’t have a problem with alcohol. I disagree.
Time and Perception Block Art&Music
Why some people stop arting before they start. Or, at least why I did.
Challenges Give Us Gifts
Illness can be a gift that reminds us what to appreciate and accept about our bodies, rather than to always judge as not good enough.
Autoimmunity? Self-Educate, Self-Advocate
I believe each and every one of us has to be our own self-advocate. Educate yourself as much as possible on your condition – and on your immune system as a whole. Learn what drives inflammation in the body, and what slows healing and repair.
Exploring a Rule of Waste
To further explore the Identify, Examine, and Reflect parts of How to unlock rules that don’t serve you, let’s play with one that just came up in my life: Construct: It’s bad to use something up (wearing out something with electronics counts as ‘using it up’ if we perceive it as having a total number…
Being The Observer
What’s all this talk in psychology about ‘being the observer of your thoughts’? And, why would I care? Here’s my take.
