Your Personal Recovery

On a weekend holiday we we have a chance to reflect on the real meaning of the holiday, feel connection to others through shared experience of family, community and culture and in our path of discovery explore how we might experience this differently. These traditional events and celebrations can have deeper meaning and create time for reflection. What is important about these traditions to you? Have you modified your traditions or even created new ones? Creating our own sense of importance around traditions and all they bring us is a central theme in Your Personal Recovery Path. “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” ― Gustav Mahler “It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.” ― D.H. Lawrence  

Establishment of a mindfulness practice is a key element of the Your Personal Recovery Path. Being fully in the present. Not the imaginary future or the imaginary past. Mentions of mindfulness turn up more and more in discussions of mental health, physical health or the path of personal clarity and for good reason. A lot of our current culture functions in mind-less-ness and distractions. Being fully present in our experience brings access to our inner peace and smoother operation of this whole bio-computer we live through. Great idea but how do we bring it into practice? What can the mind look for and then let go of? Sharing ideas is a good place to start. Some of the points in this show are inspired by a great article by Jay Dixit in Psychology Today a decade ago. The Art of Now: Six Steps to Living in the Moment By Jay Dixit, published November 1, 2008  As always I'm including some of the images and graphics we talk about here too. http://www.yourpersonalrecovery.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Establishing-Presence.pdf Enjoy! Do subscribe or join us! http://www.yourpersonalrecovery.com/online-meeting-podcast/      

In this meeting we continue into the evergreen topic of boundaries. Understanding, establishing and maintaining boundaries is essential to recovery and provides an amazing path of discovery that ties back to core values and our own integrity. We got more indepth into the list of Goals for Healthy Boundaries that you can see here in the notes or download at the link below too. Nothing is sustainable without boundaries. -Brené Brown Here is a free pdf for your fridge or bathroom mirror with goals for healthy emotional boundaries. It is the list we referenced in this meeting. Also in the image below. Click here to download  http://go.yourpersonalrecovery.com/z2 See more about Your Personal Recovery programs here. http://www.yourpersonalrecovery.com Find out about joining our live groups online here. http://go.yourpersonalrecovery.com/oh  

In this meeting we continue into the evergreen topic of boundaries. Understanding, establishing and maintaining boundaries is essential to recovery and provides an amazing path of discovery that ties back to core values and our own integrity. Nothing is sustainable without boundaries. -Brené Brown Here is a free pdf for your fridge or bathroom mirror with goals for healthy emotional boundaries. It is the list we referenced in this meeting. Also in the image below. Click here to download  http://go.yourpersonalrecovery.com/z2 See more about Your Personal Recovery programs here. http://www.yourpersonalrecovery.com Find out about joining our live groups online here. http://go.yourpersonalrecovery.com/oh  

In this meeting we take our first foray into the evergreen topic of boundaries. Understanding, establishing and maintaining boundaries is esential to recovery and provides an amazing path of discovery that ties back to core values and our own integrity. Nothing is sustainable without boundaries. -Brené Brown Here is a free pdf for your fridge or bathroom mirror with goals for healthy emotional boundaries. It is the list we referenced in this meeting. Click here to download  http://go.yourpersonalrecovery.com/z2 See more about Your Personal Recovery programs here. http://www.yourpersonalrecovery.com Find out about joining our live groups online here. http://go.yourpersonalrecovery.com/oh

In this meeting, we continued our discussion of How we create or even curate our reality by what we bring forward to the situation. We consider some additional quotes by Marcus Aurelius from his work Meditations. In the second part, we branched off into discussing the impacts of trauma on our perceptions and experience. Discussing both small t and big T traumas and the all-important resources to meet challenges that life inevitably brings.   Quotes mentioned in this show: " I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see." - Jimi Hendrix Quotes by Marcus Aurelius from his work Meditations: “Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not outside.” “It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. Just try and escape your own.”  ”Ask: What is so unbearable about this situation? Why can’t you endure it? You will be embarrassed to answer.” Reading Recommendations: The Four Agreements - don Miguel Ruiz The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk, MD

The discussion in this episode centers on what we bring to the situations in life and how those feelings, thoughts, images, and self talk shape what we experience. Quotes mentioned in this show: " I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see." - Jimi Hendrix Quotes by Marcus Aurelius from his work Meditations: “Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not outside.” “It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. Just try and escape your own.”  ”Ask: What is so unbearable about this situation? Why can’t you endure it? You will be embarrassed to answer.”   Don't forget to subscribe!