Addiction Recovery Blog | Daniel J Callahan, MSW

Hope and Fear

by Daniel 1 March 2010

“Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.” Thomas Henry Huxley Hope knocks at your door, but fear says you can’t come in. To be happy we must refrain from allowing fear in to our lives. Yes it is a normal response to outside stimuli, however, when we [...]

A Humble Spirit

by Daniel 28 February 2010

“He who knows most, knows how little he knows.” Thomas Jefferson When it comes to humility we can write all day on it. They say when you tell others you have it, you don’t… Today we would like to explore the humility of enjoying the journey. Honestly I would love to say to you that [...]

Rock Steady

by Daniel 27 February 2010

“When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.” – Isak Dinesen It is so easy to get overwhelmed in early recovery. We attempt to bite off more than we can chew. However, having [...]

Hope & Love

by Daniel 26 February 2010

“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.” – Orison Swett Marden Through the years I have found that the more Hope and Love a person had as a child the greater the chance they would have at recovery. Now of course that is [...]

Striving for Excellence

by Daniel 25 February 2010

“Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is.… It’s your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.” – Sir Laurence Olivier At times I have been guilty of attempting to be a perfectionist, in hindsight I can see it was an excuse for the fear of acting. I [...]

Powerless

by Daniel 24 February 2010

These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve. —Alcoholics Anonymous (4th ed.) We have Blogged before [...]

Today

by Daniel 23 February 2010

“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.” — Jim Rohn One day at a time life gets better and better and better. I recently [...]

Radar

by Daniel 22 February 2010

No matter what we do in life there will always be turbulence. It is simply part of life. I travel quite a bit via air. Every once in awhile the pilot will turn on the fasten seat belt sign because there is turbulence on the way. Sure enough within a minute or so it gets [...]

It is Well

by Daniel 21 February 2010

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say, It is well, it is well, with my soul. Horatio Spafford. In 1873 Horatio Spafford wrote the lyrics for the song “It is Well”. His family was heading to England on the [...]

Tiger Woods

by Daniel 20 February 2010

Obviously this is a recovery blog so what does Tiger Woods challenges have to do with us? Directly absolutely nothing, of course we could easily make a case that his rehab stint fits in to our genre of recovery. But that is not where I am heading with this. Each and every one of us [...]

If I was God…

by Daniel 19 February 2010

Fortunately I am not and never will be. I think at times I have played the role of God in my life and the lives of others. Of course the results were less then favorable. I was awakened at 5am this morning with this thought. I have said it before often I am my own [...]