The Practical Tool of Meditation
Fifty Chosen Articles: Number Twenty. Originally posted in April 2016. Meditation makes a difference in my day-to-day life in long term recovery. By Thomas B. I had my first meditation experience early in my...
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Staying Sober Without God – Practical Step Eleven
AA Version: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out....
Three Expert Tips for Stress Management
By Jeffrey Munn The author of Staying Sober Without God Originally published on his website Practically Sane Thousands of people search for “stress management” or “stress relief” on Google every single day. Why are...
Refuge Recovery – Reflections on Recovery
Refuge Recovery Part Two Reflections on Recovery “The following is a personal recovery story from a member of our Refuge Recovery Community. We have included these stories for those new to recovery to get...
Refuge Recovery
Published on January 2, 2019 on Recovery Ways What’s a Refuge Recovery Meeting Like? After leaving treatment, attending mutual aid meetings are a great way to continue your recovery. You meet other people who...
Recovery – What’s Buddhism Got To Do With It?
Published on the Buddhist Recovery Network The Buddhist Recovery Network (BRN) will be hosting its next summit in Lacey, Washington September 5-8, 2019. The title of this year’s summit is: Recovery: What’s Buddhism Got...
Can Mindfulness Meditation Prevent Relapse?
By Elizabeth Brico Published in The Fix on February 21, 2018 Mindfulness meditation teaches people how to accept suffering as a normal, cohesive experience, and then move on from it. Relapse has always been...
The Practical Tool of Meditation
By Thomas B. I had my first meditation experience early in my second year of recovery, shortly after I received my one-year medallion at the original Manhattan Group in New York City in November...
A Buddhist Path to Recovery
A more diverse world of treatment options casts a wider net for addicts who’ve fallen through the cracks. By Mark Hay Originally published in GOOD on February 18, 2016 At the age of 18,...
Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention
The treatment protocol targets the very roots of addictive behavior. by Carolyn Gregoire Originally published on November 18, 2015 on The Huffington Post A new wave of research on meditation shows that mindfulness-based treatments...
AA as “stealth Buddhism”
By Thom L I’ve sometime heard at meetings in western Massachusetts that AA is “stealth Buddhism”. I like to think of the historical Buddha as one of the first addictions counselors. He observed that...
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Reviewed by Paul T. In his “Conclusion” Sam Harris writes: Spirituality remains the great hole in secularism, humanism, rationalism, atheism, and all other defensive postures that reasonable men and women strike in the presence...
Buddhism and the 12 Steps
By Roger C. There would appear to be much in common between Buddhist thought and the 12 Step recovery program practised by some in AA. A number of books have made the connection between...
