When you are on your journey of reconnecting with your inner child with warmth, compassion, trust and comfort, affirmations could help ease your process. Affirmations can act as the bridge between the present you and the younger version of you. The tone and language...

When was the last time something within you felt deeply fulfilled? Do you remember the feelings of pure and complete awe, wonder, joy, playfulness, enthusiasm, and contentment you experienced in certain moments as a kid? When you lay on the grass and looked for funny...

“Protest any labels that turn people into things. Words are important. If you want to care for something, you call it a ‘flower’; if you want to kill something, you call it a ‘weed.’” ~Don Coyhis Losing my brother to a substance use disorder taught me things I never...

A man has only a hundred dollars in the bank and just got turned down for a job he thought he’d nailed. When his partner asks about it, he forces a smile: “It’s okay. Something better will come along.” On the surface, it sounds hopeful, but the words are a mask. He...

Last year, two major events occurred in my life: the first anniversary of my father’s fatal overdose and my tenth year of sobriety. That said, sobriety is like Zen—a process that starts over and over with each breath. Suzuki Roshi once said, “The most important thing...