The Recovery Guy Blog

Problem Drinker or Drinking Problem

Problem Drinker or Drinking Problem

One of the most challenging things we ever do is look inside ourselves to uncover/unmask the truth. The more critical the need to look.

Sharing the Message of Hope

Sharing the Message of Hope

As John Maxwell says “If there is Hope in the future there is power in the present.” We want to hope to help elevate us to greater things.

Addiction: Disease or Weakness

Addiction: Disease or Weakness

What goes on in the mind of a person who sees their life completely falling apart and knows that their addiction is primarily the reason for it.

I Don’t Want to Die

I Don’t Want to Die

One of the most important things to remember is that living is not merely the absence of not dying. I guess in the literal sense it is, but that’s not what I am talking about. I am talking about learning to live in a way that causes you and me to celebrate. Life needs to be as joyous in our living as our despair was prior to recovery.

How Sharp is your Saw

How Sharp is your Saw

“…iron sharpens iron and so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

Unseen Enemy

Unseen Enemy

One of the saving grace is through this time have been the Zoom meetings and utilizing other social media platforms that makes reaching out possible. Having said that, one on one or group events can have so much more power for an individual.

WE Not ME

WE Not ME

When I think of the TEAM concept, I often refer to Stephen Covey. For many, TEAM stands for Together Everyone Adds Merit.

Power of Personal Time

Power of Personal Time

Hopefully that tiredness and that sense of loss was what motivated you to seek recovery. Eventually, pain becomes our best friend. The very thing that was our greatest source of discomfort now became the catalyst that would drive us to saying “I cannot live this way any longer.“

Daily Affirmations

Daily Affirmations

Just like we would take a daily vitamin or we eat healthy daily or we make sure that we get enough sleep daily. Daily affirmation helps give us the positive momentum to be successful on a daily basis. Daily success is not necessarily based on the outcome what we’re talking about here is having a regular positive assertion of who we are as a person.

Power Words That Motivate

Power Words That Motivate

Over the years I have learned more about power words and why they are essential in my personal motivation for life. When we consider the word power it is defined as “ability to act or produce an effect.”

Every Yin Needs a Yang blog

Every Yin Needs a Yang blog

It is not that I invite or necessarily look forward to the dark swirl in my life. What I do know is that negative things happen in the cycle of one’s life. As much as I don’t invite it I recognize it as being a necessary component in living. So often I learn my greatest lessons when something occurs that I either don’t agree with or an event that would cause me pain.

To Thine Own Self Be True

To Thine Own Self Be True

As I went further down this path of being true, I realized, despite who I had become, being true to who I was and who I could be was my new true. The reality was I was never anything even though it felt that way.