Just Be Mindful, With What You’ve Got
By definition, mindful means “conscious or aware of something.” It also means “focusing that awareness on the present moment.” Now, there’s not a person in all the world who isn’t aware of the current crisis. And there’s probably not a person who wants to focus on it either. But the more aware we are of what’s goin’ down — in…
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Call Your Sponsor!
Everybody in the program knows somebody like Scotty B. Well, everybody who’s the least bit lucky does anyway. The really lucky know him as their sponsor. But sponsor or not, Scotty B’s the kinda guy you really wanna know in sobriety. Why? Because he’s been there, done that and ain’t never going back. He’s also ready, willing and eager to…
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All We Wanna Do is Zooma Zoom Zoom Zoom!
Last week we here at Healing Properties brought your attention to the increasingly robust new network of online recovery meetings. As we discovered, many of those meetings utilize the free Zoom app, which has become an ultra hot commodity since the whole wide world went on lockdown. What we hadn’t yet realized though was that the cloud gathering app is…
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Wanna Make an AA Meeting? Well, Pick Up Your Phone!
No community is immune to the coronavirus virus, let alone to the impact this deadly disease is having on every element of society. That, of course, includes the recovery community, which has seen an end to nearly all of its extremely vital in-person support programs, including AA meetings. And while “safer-at-home” truly does mean we’re all safer when we stay…
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