Old posts on recovery

PERS

I was reflecting on 2024 with my sponsor, as mentioned in my last post. He asked me to use the framework of Physical Emotional Relational Spiritual, which was an interesting way to break it down. I think I have invested quite a bit this year on E and a little more on P (gym, relfection, planning goals), but maybe a little light on S.

It's a good way to think through self-care, but I hadn't tried to do a review in that way.

And merry Christmas 🎅 🌟

2024-12-25

when I stop listening to my internal manager

Feels like my healthy routines and 'protocols' are something I have to choose to do: my quiet manager voice ☝. As soon as I loose momentum or somtething crops up (like not sleeping properly 💤) I stop listening and it all falls apart for a couple days. Disappointing that these things don't just tick along by themselves. Thursday was...not so great 😭. Hard reminder of what I said before though.

2024-11-17

confrontation

Dealing with the building work 🔨 at home has thrown into sharp relief how much I dread and avoid confrontation.

2024-09-03

journey

Is recovery work just as much about the journey 🎒 as the destination, whatever that is? Something I tried to bring to my recovery group as our discussion topic 🤔.

2024-08-21

sleep

There are a lot of things to do and think about in recovery (a la 12-step...). However, I feel like a lot of stuff I/we deal with in life boils down to how much sleep we are getting 💤. And good sleep routines.

I once heard:

think of going to bed as the start of the next day...like an investment.

Last night not getting much (kids, neighbours 🙄) is a tough reminder.

2024-06-09

beauty

How do I experience beauty? How can I put myself in the path of oncoming beauty?

I discussed these recently with Some friends. Some thoughts:

(PS for some reason Google’s OCR thinks my ‘s’ are capitalised. Sorry about that!)

First published 2024-04-24