Addiction Recovery Blog | Daniel J Callahan, MSW

More than gratitude…

by Daniel 9 May 2011

This is a note a received on Facebook: Hi, just thought I would let you know I have not touched a drop for 9 months now the emails I get from your website help loads, love reading them. My kids are now very happy to have their mum back, has been bloody hard at times [...]

I’m alive…

by Daniel 6 May 2011

“Death is not the greatest loss in life, the greatest loss is what dies in us while we are still alive.” – Norman Cousins Addiction and alcoholism rob us of every fiber of life while we are actively using or drinking. The walking dead. I remember walking into the rooms and hearing “welcome to the [...]

Guilt and shame…

by Daniel 5 May 2011

“The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.” – Rod Steiger Guilt and shame are emotions we cannot afford to accommodate on a daily basis. I have often heard it said that guilt is a BS emotion. Of course that is not completely true, it is definitely an emotion that we [...]

Excellence

by Daniel 4 May 2011

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. –Colin Powell When I think of excellence I think back to my propensity to judge myself radically. In the early years of recovery I would get down on [...]

Be aware of wonder…

by Daniel 1 May 2011

“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life — learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.” – Robert Fulghum I love sharing my experience, strength and hope on a daily basis through blogging. I was winding down in school, took on some [...]

Give it away…

by Daniel 27 April 2011

“The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.” – Brian Tracy Pushing others up, offering people a pat on the back for a job well done can be the difference for them in their recovery. The founders [...]

You are meant to be…

by Daniel 21 April 2011

“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.” — Napoleon Hill We are born to be dreamers. We start out believing we can do anything! Yet as time goes by we start to believe [...]

Make the world a better place…

by Daniel 20 April 2011

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” – Carl W. Buechner I have to remind myself of the reason I do what I do. My purpose, my vision, my desire is to make the world a better place. For a very long time I did not [...]

Love life…

by Daniel 19 April 2011

“I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.” – Julia Cameron The journey is remarkable if I allow it to be. I am a huge believer in the power of [...]

Twenty Three Years of continuous sobriety…

by Daniel 14 April 2011

“I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” – Leo Rosten Today is 23 years without a drink or drug! My recovery [...]

Challenges overcome…

by Daniel 11 April 2011

“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They’re what make the instrument stretch — what makes you go beyond the norm.” – Cicely Tyson I do not think there is any greater challenge that we face then the challenge of overcoming addiction for the addict. We learn through the recovery [...]