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The Art of Aloneness: Social Distancing and Spiritual Connection

April 7, 2020 By Gary Boucher 1 Comment

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“Don’t isolate.” It’s one of the first things anyone in recovery, anyone attending a 12-Step meeting or getting therapy, usually hears. It also happens to be good advice for anyone in any kind of healing process: if you need help, don’t isolate. Don’t be alone with only your own “stinkin’ thinkin’” to keep ... Read More

No-Self or Self-Love? Finding the Balance

February 27, 2020 By Gary Boucher Leave a Comment

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Have you ever noticed that nobody you know looks like the people in the “inspirational” images you see online or on TV? You know the ones: the handsome, toothy, broadly smiling men and women with perfect hair that ride around in convertibles with the top down and thrust their arms triumphantly toward the sky, ... Read More

Think Big, Start Small: Building a Sustainable Spiritual Practice

February 6, 2020 By Gary Boucher Leave a Comment

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We live in an age when all the corners of the world are talking to each other—even if they don’t always agree on much. That wasn’t true for most of human history. Until the last 500 years or so, it was hard for places that were far apart to communicate. It took a long time to cross the oceans in what today ... Read More

The Gifts of Light and Laughter

January 7, 2020 By Gary Boucher Leave a Comment

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I don’t suppose that the poet William Wordsworth had the holiday season in mind when he wrote these famous words: The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; After all, he was writing in the nineteenth century, long before the commercialization of ... Read More

Guarding Your Sobriety through the Holidays

December 22, 2019 By Gary Boucher Leave a Comment

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"There’s no place like home for the holidays," according to the song made famous by Perry Como in the 1950s and played every holiday season ever since: Oh, there's no place like home for the holidays 'Cause no matter how far away you roam If you wanna to be happy in a million ways For the holidays you ... Read More

What I Am Thankful For

December 1, 2019 By Gary Boucher Leave a Comment

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As we approach Thanksgiving Day once again—the national gateway to holiday madness and family food fights over football and politics—I’m especially thankful for all of the many animals that have blessed my life, domesticated and wild. (I ask forgiveness from the turkeys about to make the ultimate sacrifice ... Read More

12-Step and Non-12-Step Approaches to Recovery: What’s the Difference?

October 1, 2019 By Gary Boucher 1 Comment

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How do we know when it’s a beautiful day? What makes us say so? I stood on the lawn the other evening and wondered. Why was I responding so deeply, why was I so moved? And why did I feel so much lighter, like a burden had been lifted? When I looked around, the answer seemed obvious: beauty, harmony, and ... Read More

Yoga for Healing and Wholeness

September 10, 2019 By Gary Boucher Leave a Comment

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“Stinkin’ thinkin’.” I remember hearing that phrase for the first time from a friend who was in a couple of different 12-Step groups. The saying points to something also understood in many spiritual circles, that the thinking mind—the part of us that lives in words and tries to figure things out—often gets us ... Read More

Epigenetics and Recovery

August 8, 2019 By Gary Boucher 1 Comment

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We live in interesting times in which things are changing faster than we can sometimes keep track of them. One of the places where this occurs is the field of medicine. The changes that are happening and about to happen there are truly amazing, and are bringing great hope to many that cures of diseases such ... Read More

Judaism and Recovery

July 2, 2019 By Gary Boucher Leave a Comment

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In the interest of full disclosure, I am not Jewish; but having written here previously about aspects of Christian, Buddhist and Taoist spirituality as it impacts issues of addiction and recovery, and given how many members of the Jewish faith there are in the U.S. and the New York area, it only seems right ... Read More

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