Surviving Infidelity: Making Decisions, Recovering from the Pain by Rona B. Subotnik and Gloria Harris This book is an oldie but goodie. It has been around for years but has stood the test of time and is still relevant today for those healing from infidelity. The beginning of the book can be particularly helpful for those who are dealing with emotional affairs. The authors devote a section to … [Read more...]
Embracing Failure in Recovery
By: Robert Rubinow, LPC The addicted mind is permeated with thoughts that bend one’s view of reality into an unrecognizable panorama. These negative thoughts—like little seedlings deposited by our adverse experiences of the world, and often, the families or cultures we grow up in—grow over time into an interconnected labyrinth of beliefs with deep and hazardous roots, like a dense, defended … [Read more...]
The Gifts of Gratitude in Recovery
“Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.” ― John Ortberg It is easy during recovery—when our eyes are turned toward our failures and our hopes toward sobriety—to become lost in self-preoccupation and unhealthy introspection. After all, depending on our medicated self to “figure it all out” has been our modus operandi for a … [Read more...]