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Circle of Family and Friends - You and Your Personal Community

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May 27, 2011

Time slips by. . .

I celebrated my 35 year anniversary in AA three days ago. I honestly can't fathom where all the years have gone. Nearly half of my life has been spent in AA rooms. I remember quite well the first meeting I attended here in Minneapolis. I still recall many[...]

Karen's Musings, What I Believe - You and Your Higher Power

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May 18, 2011

Circumstances aren’t always as they seem. . .

I have referenced This is Water in two earlier posts and now I want to reveal the end of David Lawrence Foster's story. He hung himself in 2008. He had suffered from severe and chronic depression his whole life and gave up when the medication no longer kept it[...]

What I Believe - You and Your Higher Power

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May 14, 2011

Are you seeing all that’s there to be seen? And feeling all that’s there to be felt?

I mentioned in the last post a great little book, This is Water, by David Foster Wallace. I endorse this book wholeheartedly, in fact. I'm personally convinced that most of us don't see the world in all it's splendor. We are like the fish just swimming along[...]

Circle of Family and Friends - You and Your Personal Community, What I Believe - You and Your Higher Power, Your Experience, Strength and Hope

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May 8, 2011

Awareness is the key to living full lives. . .

I read a wonderful little book yesterday by David Foster Wallace. The title is This Is Water. It's one of those special little books that takes a hold of you and doesn't let go. It's actually a commencement address that Mr. Wallace gave at Kenyon College in 2[...]

What I Believe - You and Your Higher Power, Your Experience, Strength and Hope

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April 25, 2011

Faith, along with acceptance, is the solution to our problems.

I think many of us develop our faith as a result of hind-sight coupled with the practice of prayer and meditation. I certainly didn't "come by my faith" naturally. I didn't grow up in a family where it was openly practiced or even discussed. At family gatheri[...]

Circle of Family and Friends - You and Your Personal Community

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April 20, 2011

Taking ourselves and the situations in our lives too seriously is not a necessary part of the growth curve.

What a relief to be reminded by good friends, (and it takes a good, and brave friend to do it,) that we need not overreact to the common, ordinary situations that occur on a daily basis. As a matter of course, reacting, rather than making a calm choice to simply[...]

Your Experience, Strength and Hope

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April 14, 2011

I can see peace instead of this. . .

Choosing to see, and feel peace in the midst of the chaos that's so common in our lives is a decision that will change every minute of every experience from this day forward. Perhaps this seems like a stretch of the imagination that one could live this way. And[...]

Reflections in the Mirror - You and Yourself

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April 11, 2011

Change your mind and your life will follow. . .

The title of this post is the title of one of my recent books. (You can check it out if interested on amazon.) I mention it today because it's great shorthand for how to live differently. As a woman in recovery I talk to a lot of other women, and men too, in re[...]

Circle of Family and Friends - You and Your Personal Community, Reflections in the Mirror - You and Yourself

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April 7, 2011

To embrace detachment offers us freedom from bondage. . .

I ponder the idea of detachment quite often. It's been the topic in more than one of the books I have written, (see www.womens-spirituality.com, books section) and it is the primary topic in many of the workshops and lectures I do in the public arena. I love th[...]

What I Believe - You and Your Higher Power

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April 2, 2011

“Now” is problem free. . .

Living in the now shouldn't be so hard. Should it? Most of us no doubt think that's where we reside. However, I'd venture to say we spend more time dwelling on the past or anticipating the future than we spend just soaking up this moment. Unconsciously our mi[...]