Whispering Wyrd
The Healing Web
Category: Sober
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My heart woke me up early this morning doing its disturbing “dance” that benzo withdrawal caused. It doesn’t happen as often these days, thankfully, but when it does there is no ignoring it, and no going back to sleep when it happens in the middle of the night. It’s one of the prices I paid…
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I am and always have been someone who judges the truth of things, measures things, by lived experience. If a teaching doesn’t line up with my own lived experience, I dismiss it out of hand. For example, if someone says they love you but constantly belittles you, those words “I love you” lose their meaning.…
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What a difference sleep makes! The previous two nights I barely slept at all. Both nights I fell asleep easy, but the dreams I’ve written about so many times before woke me up pretty soon after drifting off, and there was no going back to sleep after that. But last night I finally slept from…
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For most of my life I had a habit of waiting for things to be “just right” before I would do something good for myself like getting clean or start healing an inner wound. But as life tends to go, those perfect conditions really just never really came. So I carried the pain and anger…
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This is a topic that feels a little strange for me to write about because there was a time in my life when I would not accept accountability in any form. To say I reacted badly when anyone tried to hold me accountable would be a massive understatement. I wasn’t willing to let others do…
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I was remembering a conversation I had many years ago. At the time, I had just gone from building power lines to working in IT for a massive online trading corporation with offices around the country. It was a big shift, not just in the work itself, but in the culture. I had to learn…
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My wife said something this morning that made us both laugh. She looked at me and said, “You’re always in a good mood now, even when you haven’t slept… and it’s kind of creepy!” She said it because I hadn’t slept well last night, yet here I was this morning still happy, still in a…
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Happy Friday! Have you ever heard of “mental Kung Fu”? I hadn’t either, at least not outside the martial arts world. The phrase might sound mystical or exotic, like something reserved for monks or fighters, but it really isn’t. It’s actually really simple. “Mental Kung Fu” is just applying the principles of martial arts like…
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I woke up to another beautiful day here today. As part of my daily morning routine I checked in on the recovery community across a few platforms. There’s almost always something encouraging there. People helping each other, lifting each other up. It’s a good way to start the day. But then I saw a headline…
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Today is a beautiful day here in Santa Fe! The ravens are flying, talking to each other as they ride invisible currents in the air. Other birds are singing their songs, the finches, bluebirds, and robins, all busy doing what they do. It’s mostly sunny so no clouds interrupting the wide open view of the…
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