Archive for the ‘Chemical Dependency’ Category
23
May
Posted by Mark Schmitz in 12 Step Program, About Me, Addiction, Art, Chemical Dependency, Creativity, Drug Addiction, Life, Personal Growth, Recovery, Self Discovery, Spirituality. Tagged: 12 Step Program, Addiction, Art, Art by Christopher Eshenbaugh, Art Therapy, Artist, Chemical Dependency, Christopher Eshenbaugh, Creativity, Life, Life's Lessons, Mask of Domestic Violence, Personal Growth, Reading, Recovery, Self Discovery. 1 Comment
The Mask of Domestic Violence – By Artist, Christopher Eshenbaugh
“Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world (our own), we see it multiplied.” — Marcel Proust
I’ve been looking at the therapeutic nature of art to one’s recovery lately. In our active addiction, we tended to have a single, narrow view of ourselves and the world [...]
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23
May
Posted by Mark Schmitz in 12 Step Program, Addiction, Art, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, Life, Opinions, Personal Growth, Recovery, Self Discovery, Self-improvement, Spirituality. Tagged: Addiction, Art, Art by Christopher Eshenbaugh, Blake, Change, Chemical Dependency, Creative Endeavor, Creative expression, Creativity, James Joyce, Life, Life's Lessons, New Patterns to Life, New Ways of Seeing the World, Personal Growth, Poe, Recovery, Van Gogh. Leave a Comment
The Mask of Mental Illness – By Christopher Dale Eshenbaugh
I can see that my new life will be full of the unknown, but that is what can make it exciting and creative.
Many great artists were neglected or even abused during their lifetime because their work was considered too provocative. Painters like Van Gogh, poets [...]
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28
Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in 12 Step Program, Addiction, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, Life, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Purpose of Life, Recovery, Relationships, Self-forgiveness, Self-improvement, Spirituality. Tagged: Dishonest, Judged, Judgement, Judging, Life, Personal Growth, Recovery, Time to change, Tools for personal growth, Unhealthy Behavior. Leave a Comment
It is time to change. The longer we wait, the more ingrained are our habits and ways of perceiving and deceiving. If we live a lie, we will be judged accordingly, by ourselves and those close to us. We can change and grow and move ahead into the openness and fullness of each new day.
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8
Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in About Me, Addiction, Afraid, Amy Winehouse, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, End of Relationship, Gay, Gay Relationship, Gay, Lesbian Bi-sexual, Transgendered, Queer [GLBTQ], Hurt emotions, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Lyrics, Music, Personal Growth, Recovery, Relationships, Song Lyrics. Tagged: Amy Winehouse, Betrayal, End of a long term relationship, End of Relationship, Gay, Gay Relationship, Gay, Lesbian Bi-sexual, Transgendered, Queer [GLBTQ], Intimacy, Life, Loss of a Love Relationship, Love, Lyrics, Music, Personal Growth, Song Lyrics, Tears Dry On Their Own. Leave a Comment
All I can ever be to you is a darkness that we knew
And this regret I got accustomed to
Once it was so right
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7
Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Addiction, Awareness, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, Family, Friends, Friendship, Friendships, Humanity, Life, Life's Lessons, Personal Growth, Recovery, Resentment, Self concept, Spirituality. Tagged: Apathy, Disease of the Spirit, Don't Value People, Forgiveness, Hate, hatred, Indifference, Life, Personal Growth, Recovery, Self Directed Hatred, Self-concern, Self-improvement, The other side of Love. Leave a Comment
“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity.” — George Bernard Shaw
Hate is the other side of love and shows at least energy and passion. Probably most of us feel surges of hate at some time or another, especially toward [...]
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7
Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in 12 Step Program, About Me, Addiction, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, Friends, Friendship, Friendships, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, New Age, People in your life, Personal Growth, Purpose of Life, Recovery, Relationships, Spirituality. Tagged: A Little Help from Our Friends, Addiction, Best friend, Bond of love between friends, Friends, Friendships, Gift of friendship, Good friends, Honesty, Personal Growth, Recovery, Relationships, Rewards of friendship, Skills to be a good friend, Unconditional acceptance. Leave a Comment
“And when I see you happy, well, it sets my heart free. I’d like to be as good a friend to you as you are to me.” — Joni Mitchell
Friends are one of the greatest gifts and they come as a result of a life that’s sane and manageable. It takes time and energy to [...]
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7
Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in 12 Step Program, AIDS, Addiction, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, HIV, Health, Life, Mental Health, New Age, Opinions, Personal Growth, Purpose of Life, Recovery, Spirituality. Tagged: Addiction, Afraid to die, death, Death in the abstract, dying, Eternity, Falling in Love, Fear of dying, Life, Near death experience, Personal Growth, Recovery, Relationships, renewal, Transition. 1 Comment
“It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” — Woody Allen
Even after a recent near death experience, I tend to think of death in the abstract, as a fact rather than a reality. I know that everything passes and that we are bound to die, but [...]
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7
Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in About Me, Addiction, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, End of Relationship, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, New Age, Personal Growth, Recovery, Relationships, Self Discovery, Self-improvement, Spirituality. Tagged: Close relationship, commitment, Committed, Devotion, end of a relationship, Falling in Love, Intimacy, Intimate relationship, Love, Love is a bed of roses, Loving, Non-attachment, Relationships, Romance, Sexual, The Joy and Pain of Loving. Leave a Comment
“The main motive for ‘non-attachment’ is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual is hard work.” — George Orwell
In popular romances, love is often presented as a bed of roses – without the thorns. We may also have the idea that loving is always [...]
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25
Mar
Posted by Mark Schmitz in 12 Step Program, Addiction, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, God the Universe and Our Higher Power as We Know it, Honesty, Life, Lying, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Recovery, Spirituality. Tagged: guilt, Choices, Recovery, Addiction, Anger, Fear, Honesty, Resentments, dishonesty, rigorous honesty, Decision Making Tool, 12 Step Program, Clean and Sober Life, Make one choice at a time, Decisions, Poor decisions, Honest feeling, Honest thinking, Honest People, Negative Feelings, Telling the Truth, Apples of Gold, Proverbs 25 11. 2 Comments
Personal honesty is a gift for which I thank the Universe every day.
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25
Mar
Posted by Mark Schmitz in 12 Step Program, Addiction, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, Life, Life's Lessons, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Purpose of Life, Recovery, Spirituality. Tagged: 12 Step Program, Addiction, Clean and Sober Life, drugs, Faith, Humility, peace, Personal Growth, Readiness, Recovery, Rehab, Sex, sobriety, Spirituality, Struggle, Surrender, Tough Times, Transformation, Treatment, Willingness. Leave a Comment
We move forward often without knowing where we’re going. But in those rare, shining moments of willingness when we conform our will to the Universe’s, we see our direction clearly. And we are transformed.
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