The good thing about having an author write a column or an article is that you hear about a new book before the...
This certainly isn’t the first article to be written during the Christmas season, whereby the author attempts...
March 13, 1993: In the darkness of my bedroom I could hear my phone ringing. I reached for my glasses and stared...

By Larry Smith, CAS “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make...
Compassion is a foundational healing modality recovering addicts must learn. Using my book, The Craft of...
Do not feed your ego and your problems with your attention… Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one...
Sobriety is about God. We find him there. Reaching for the ultimate freedom from the bondage of addiction —...
And His son shall be named Jesus, which means Savior. What did He come to save us from? Jesus did not come to...
I’ve been in Twelve Step recovery for many years and yet I’m still “a seeker”. What I mean by this is that...
“The greatest power in our lives is our capacity to imagine, vision or dream, not only when we are young but...
After a 44 hour trip to Yogokarata, Indonesia, I began to wonder why did I ever agreed to be keynote speaker and...
When I was asked to write an article commemorating the first year anniversary of the launch of RecoveryView.com...
“We live in a purposeful universe. Every organism in the universe has a design—a purpose that determines...
As Fall approaches I contemplate the “lavish wastefulness of nature.” Leaves fall everywhere as trees shed...
It is often said that the recovery journey is spiritual. But what does it really mean? I hope I’m not being...
Addictions come in all forms and wears many disguises, and even though you cannot always identify them, they are...
My name is Lee and I’m a … human being. My being human comes with a lot of information, coding, traits,...
My name is Lee and I’m a … human being. My being human comes with a lot of information, coding, traits,...
My wife, Deena Metzger, opens up her essay, Illness Heals the World: “Illness is a story. It calls us to...
I once had a good friend named Hal. Although we did not see each other often, when we finally got together, we...
Buddhism and mindfulness is capturing the interest, heart, and imagination of the counseling field. Over the...
It was a Friday morning this past November. Listening with half an ear to the morning news I overheard that...
Wendy Mullen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Professional Life Coach in Los Angeles,...
To be taught is nothing; everything is inside waiting to be awakened. “Paracelsus” Today we seem to search...
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