Meanwhile in the Galaxy Gaia turned to her lover Sol Beseeching him for help With her current condition Such was Sol’s love for her That he gave her a fever Of Biblical Proportions Comparable to the Great Flood But instead of cleansing the planet with a deluge Threatened to sear every vestige of life from…
The telephone rang In the middle of the night It was God Thanking me for taking part In an experiment called insanity. “Your willingness to descend Into the depths of darkness Has been much appreciated. May we call you for future follow-ups?”
One of the things I realized during my years of therapy is that my mind had been taken over by powerful emotions that stemmed from events in my early childhood. To that extent my mind, and therefore my life, was constantly being hijacked by pain and anger from the distant past, fueling a deep and…
Whenever I am asked what it is I believe helped me the most in my healing journey, I reply that it is the fact that I listened to my own inner guidance over and above any expert’s opinion. Sometimes my gut instincts told me to do something completely irrational and illogical, and I did it…
By my mid twenties I had recognized the pattern: every time I resurfaced from a depression it was accompanied by the same emotion: anger. I realized that if depression could be characterized as repressed anger, which is a form of powerlessness, then it only made sense that getting in touch with my fundamental power would…
Six years after I resurfaced from my journey through addiction and depression, my sister sent me a revolutionary work by Dr. Gabor Mate. His book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, validates from a medical perspective what I lived through experientially. Dr. Mate is one of those rare breeds of people who go where the…
A few days ago I received an envelope of letters from a group of young people in recovery I’d taken out and introduced to the sport that literally saved my life. It’s always been my intention to share my love of ice so that it may help others. I think I might be on track……
I don’t have heroes; most of the people put up before us for admiration simply don’t impress me. They may be rich, beautiful, or exhibit a superb level of athletic prowess. But they cannot command my attention for possessing such superfluous traits. And so it came as a surprise to me yesterday when I met…
Like most great street sayings, this one originated in the African American neighborhoods in the late seventies and early eighties, in conjunction with the crack epidemic that swept their demographic. Nothing will ruin a neighborhood, or an individual life, faster than a cheap, hard drug. And nobody uses these drugs more than the marginalized segments…
“If you are dependent on something outside yourself to feel good, you are addicted.” When I was offered the choice of trading in my cocaine habit for a lithium habit, I knew the only difference was a legal one. I knew in my bones that I needed to face the uncomfortable feelings I had been…