Archive for the ‘Honesty’ Category
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Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in About Me, Addiction, Afraid, Boundaries, Change, Conflict, Courage, Decision, Decision Making, Depression, Dificulty, Dishonest, Dispute, End of Relationship, Fear, Gay, Gay Relationship, Gay, Lesbian Bi-sexual, Transgendered, Queer [GLBTQ], Healing, Honesty, Hurt emotions, Inner Self, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Love Letters, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Personality, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Relationships, Self Discovery, Self-forgiveness, Shame, Spirituality, Tough Times, course of right action, deceit, feelings, forgiveness, inspiration. Tagged: Divorce, End of Relationship, Good bye, Grief, Loss of relationship, Love, relationship, Separation, Sunday in the Park with George. 3 Comments
“I left because there was no room for me. But you could tell me not to go. Say it to me. Tell me not to go.” — Stephen Sondheim. Dot in Sunday in the Park with George.
To leave someone we love is to knowingly break a vital connection. Even if we chose to leave, we [...]
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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: 12 Step Program, Addiction, Anger, Apples of Gold, Choices, Clean and Sober Life, Decision Making Tool, Decisions, dishonesty, Fear, guilt, Honest feeling, Honest People, Honest thinking, Honesty, Make one choice at a time, Negative Feelings, Poor decisions, Proverbs 25 11, Recovery, Resentments, rigorous honesty, Telling the Truth. 2 Comments
Personal honesty is a gift for which I thank the Universe every day.
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26
Jan
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Addiction, Change, Chemical Dependency, Childhood, Drug Addiction, Family, Honesty, Hope, Humanity, Life, Life's Lessons, Opinions, Personal Growth, Recovery, Relationships, Spirituality, Suffering. Tagged: 12 Step Program, Addiction, Adversity, Anger, Blame, blame everyone else, Blame the world, Change, Chemical Dependency, Childhood, Conflict, Drug Addiction, Dysfunction, dysfunctional family, Family, Family of Choice, family problems, Family System, Honesty, Hope, Humanity, Humility, Intimacy, Knowledge, Life, Life's Lessons, New Age, Opinions, Personal Growth, Recovery, Relationships, Sexual Addiction, Spirituality, Suffering, Wisdom. 2 Comments
“It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to halt.” — Plutarch
Working through the memories of childhood is a task each of us eventually faces. Addiction in a family system contributes to addiction along the way and affects our own individual addiction(s) and creates drama in [...]
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17
Jan
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Addiction, Boundaries, Change, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, Honesty, Hope, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Lying, Opinions, Personal Growth, Recovery, Relationships, Spirituality, Truth. Tagged: 12 Step Program, Addiction, Adversity, Boundaries, Change, Chemical Dependency, Conflict, Drug Addiction, Family, Fear, Friends, Health, Honesty, Hope, Intimacy, Knowledge, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Lying, Mental Health, Mental Health, Opinions, Personal Growth, Recovery, Relationships, Spirituality, Truth, Wisdom. 2 Comments
“Our first priority must be our individual recovery; only when we have succeeded in improving our self-esteem will we be able to be in a relationship truly by choice and not our of dependency.” – Jennifer and Burt Schneider
Sex is not glue. It doesn’t keep people with us. We’ve often misunderstood sexuality and intimacy when we [...]
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25
Dec
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Addiction, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, Holidays, Honesty, Life, Life's Lessons, Lying, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Relationships, Seasons, Spirituality, Truth. Tagged: 12 Step Program, AA, Addiction, Chemical Dependency, Christmas, CMA, Creation Spirituality, Crystal Meth, Drug Addiction, forget problems, Forgetting of ego, Grattitide, Holiday Seasonal, Holidays, Honesty, Hope, Intimacy, Knowledge, Letting go, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Lying, Matthew Fox, Mental Health, Mental Health, NA, Opinions, peace, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Reality, Recovery, Relationships, Seasons, Simplicity, Spirituality, Truth, Wisdom. 6 Comments
“Celebration is a forgetting in order to remember. A forgetting of ego, of problems, of difficulties. A letting go.” – Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox (born 1940) is an American Episcopalian priest and theologian. He is an advocate of Creation Spirituality, a movement grounded in the mystical philosophies of medieval visionaries such as Hildegard of [...]
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16
Dec
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Addiction, Boundaries, Change, Depression, Family, Fear, Friends, Friendship, Honesty, Hope, Humanity, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Relationships, Truth. Tagged: Addiction, All About Me, Boundaries, Change, Conflict, Depression, Family, Fear, Forgiveness, Friends, Friendship, Friendships, Honesty, Hope, Humanity, Intimacy, Knowledge, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Mental Health, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Relationships, Truth, Wisdom. 4 Comments
“Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves; to like themselves.” — Bonaro Overstreet
I was going about my life when suddenly; I became aware that I was feeling anxious, uncomfortable and insecure. But what I feel underneath is afraid. Even [...]
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15
Dec
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Addiction, Change, Depression, Fear, Honesty, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Relationships, Spirituality. Tagged: Addiction, Change, Depression, Family, Family of Choice, Fear, Friendship, Friendships, Honesty, Hope, Humanity, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Mental Health, Mental Health, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Relationships, Spirituality, Truth, Wisdom. Leave a Comment
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” — Marie Curie
Fear usually comes from ignorance and it paralyzes usually only as long as we remain in the dark. For many of us, fear is often free-floating anxiety that overtakes us inexplicably and pushes us toward unaccountable actions.
Anxiety and fear have [...]
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14
Dec
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Change, Honesty, Intimacy, Life, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Relationships. Tagged: All About Me, Authentic Self, Change, Friends, Friendship, Honesty, Humanity, Identity, idiosyncrasies, Intimacy, Life, Love, Loving ourself, Loving ourselves, myself, Opinions, Personal Growth, Personality, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Relationships, Self, Self Discovery, Self Esteem, Self image, Self-centeredness, Spirituality. 2 Comments
“The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities. ” — Cesare Tavese
Complete these sentences and if you’d like include your answers in my poll:
Hard, isn’t it? It’s usually easier to come up with five awful things about ourselves. Yet, knowing [...]
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7
Dec
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Boundaries, Conflict, Family, Friends, Friendship, Honesty, Humanity, Life, Life's Lessons, Lying, Opinions, Personal Growth, Poetry, Relationships. Tagged: Boundaries, Conflict, Family, Friends, Friendship, Gossip, Gossip Express, Honesty, Humanity, Humor, Life, Life's Lessons, Lying, Opinions, Personal Growth, Poems, Poetry, Relationships, Sense of Humor. Leave a Comment
This one is an informational subject.
It may even strike that nerve and single you out.
The only one you apparently have,
Or so I’ve heard,
Through the vast endeavors
Of the he said – she said crowd.
Oh my god, you’re the talk of the town!
Like a novel one can’t put down.
On the best sellers list, it cuts like a knife.
I had [...]
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6
Dec
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Change, Honesty, Intimacy, Life, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Relationships, Spirituality. Tagged: A New Day, Adversity, Boundaries, Change, Conflict, Decision Making Tool, Depression, emerson, Family, Fear, forget the past, Honesty, Hope, Humanity, Intimacy, Life, Longfellow, Love, Negativity, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Relationships, Spirituality, The Better Bus. Leave a Comment
After going to bed after an evening enjoying the works of Emerson and Longfellow, I’d like to share some of my thoughts:
Get on what I’m calling the “Better Bus.” That is, stay away from anyone who chooses to take the “Negative Bus” filled with passengers making the wrong choices; trust me, they can’t even accept [...]
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