Leslie Glass's Blog, page 171

How To Feel Gratitude With Easy Tricks To Feel Happier

How to feel gratitude when you’re suffering or grieving is a challenge millions of people face every day. How can you feel grateful when things are so bad? In families where there is substance or alcohol use disorder, there is constant conflict and chaos. Children are bound to be scared and hurting. What can we...

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Signs Of A Dysfunctional Family Can Be Hidden

Signs of a dysfunctional family may clear to everyone, or they may be so subtle you’d never guess from the outside that members are hurting. Lovely quiet voices can actually hide menace and threats. If you have to suppress your feelings, you’re not in a happy family. And worse, you may feel it’s your fault....

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From Chaos To Creativity Here’s How

Chaos to creativity, is it possible? Yes, it is possible, but only when we clean up our own mess. It turns out that chaos is the new frontier we need to conquer in order to survive. Chaos from the outside rules us. A 24 hour news cycle flashes before us. From fires, to floods, to...

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Coach’s Corner: What Is Your Why?

What is Your Why? Leslie Gold here from Strides in Recovery to talk about running, recovery and inspiration. Today, specifically, we’re talking about what is your why? “I’m going to exercise more” is one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions, yet roughly 80% of New Year’s resolutions fail; and most of those fail within...

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Surprising Tips To Have A Bountiful Life

When you think of having a truly bountiful life, what comes to mind? Security, a loving family? Maybe what you want most is for a loved one to stop using drugs or alcohol. On the other hand, your loved one may have stopped using, but the behaviors that made life difficult continue. We have some...

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Does Focus On Yourself Go Too Far

Focus on yourself, get empowered, do self care. We’ve been gotten lots of advice recently about how to escape from narcissists, spot toxic friends, understand dysfunctional families, and we give some ourselves. We believe in self -realization as much as the most committed Yogi. We write about setting boundaries because it’s important, but from all...

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Have Fun With Recovery Words

Click the download button to print and play. The Answer key is at the bottom of this page.  Download Have fun with recovery words in a brand new way. ROR introduces Kyczy Hawks’s wisdom and word searches. Have Fun With Recovery Words is the first of a weekly series. We love these word searches and...

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Questions About Marijuana

Since marijuana use seems to be skyrocketing, with the legalization push and use for medical reasons, more questions are beginning to appear. Is it really safe? If I’m around the smoke, will I get high? Here are some frequently asked questions about marijuana and what you need to know. How does marijuana effect my social...

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Marijuana’s Effects

Like any other substance, marijuana has both short-term and lasting effects. Plenty of research still needs to be conducted, as there isn’t as much information about the long-term effects as, say, alcohol would have. However, there are still concrete results for both short and long-term effects. To learn more about marijuana, click HERE for an...

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How To Stop Conflict

There’s a reason there is an entire field dedicated to how to stop conflict. It’s not easy to deal with conflict, particularly if you’re dealing with difficult people. In the recovery world, you’re often faced with difficult people, sometimes you’re dealing with a combination of people who have different values and world views. Conflict is...

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