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JACK KORNFIELD
NONATTACHMENT As addicts ourselves and loving friends and family to addicts, it’s natural to feel that we’ve been dealt a heavy hand. Why do bad things happen to good people? Why are some spared, and some not? It is easy to let our pain and suffering prevail, taking the passenger seat alongside it. In the …
JAMES TAYLOR
JAMES TAYLOR EXPOSE In an interview about the release of his most recent album, “Before This World” James Taylor says this: “If there’s anything I could make different about my family, it’s this: I wish we had understood addiction earlier. Well, I understood addiction – recovery was the thing I didn’t understand.” Suffering from mental …
RETWEET (TARA BRACH)
RETWEET (TARA BRACH) Tara Brach is a psychotherapist and a Buddhist whose teachings are founded on the idea of radical acceptance. She defines this as “clearly recognizing what we are feeling in the present moment and regarding that experience with compassion.” She writes below about her experience finding that within herself and sharing it …
YOGA
YOGA As yoga teachers, aspiring yogis, hopeful handstanders, we at Whole Families could craft a lengthy dissertation in favor of this ancient practice. Groundedness and flight, fortitude and ease, power and surrender are life-saving binaries to reconcile – especially for us as addicts and those who love us. Yoga teaches us to strengthen from within. …
SHARING OUR STORIES: ELTON JOHN
ELTON JOHN EXPOSE Mention indelible childhood memories, and most millennials can mindlessly belt out any lyric from the iconic “Circle of Life.” Offering it a bit more mindfulness, though, we witness composer Elton John telling a powerful story. As the song hits the chorus, John writes, “You can never take more than you give.” For …
12 STEP RECOVERY: STEP 1
Step 1 We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable. “Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness…But upon entering AA, we soon take quite another view of this absolute humiliation. We perceive that only through utter …