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Spiritual Healing in Recovery: Listening to Your Inner Voice

Why connecting to spirit matters for sobriety, resilience, and peace. The Story: “Nancy” and Higher Power Recently, a friend told me...

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When the Body Keeps Score: Trauma, Illness, and Finding Real Healing

How our bodies hold on to pain—and how recovery, community, and self-compassion help us let go The Body Tells the Truth This week in our...

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From Clutter to Clarity: Recovery’s Hidden Work

How clearing mental and emotional clutter helps you find peace in sobriety When I was drinking, I thought no one would know. But, my ...

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The Fear Behind the Silence

God Never Asked Me to Be Silent For years, I thought silence was strength.That staying quiet kept the peace. But the truth is, silence can cost you your voice — sometimes your soul. For most of my life, I have struggled to speak — to say what I really thought or felt. It wasn’t until recently that I began to understand how deeply silence shaped me — how it hurt me, how it held me back — and how finding my voice would become part of my healing. Losing My Voice Five years ago,