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Expanding Beyond Recovery in Costa Rica: with guest blog by Jennifer Shea

It's been just over a week since I landed back at home from hosting my retreat at La Anita Rainforest Ranch in Northern Costa Rica. I'm...

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Riding the Waves of 2024 (and finding your feet)

I’ve been riding the waves lately. But not in the way I used to. For much of my life, I’ve been the person on the heaving boat, hurled...

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The Song of the Wise Woman

I’ve been thinking a lot about self-compassion lately and have come to the realization that for most of my life, I’ve avoided it. Why?...

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What was I made for?

A dear co-facilitator and friend gave me a card at a recent retreat. It says: Fill your lungs up with life and repeat after me: I am...

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The Days of our Sober Lives (and what I do when life is on fire.)

My son wakes up at either 2am, 4am or both every night. Each time I guide him back to his bed and tuck him in. He is up again at 6am and...

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An Ode to Creativity

This weekend, after a period of intensity in my life, I felt some spaciousness. I moved, I danced. I found myself in the present moment....

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Number Nine and Lessons Learned

The August air is starting to feel a little cooler. The summer light and shadows have shifted ever-so-slightly. I saw a single,...

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A Season of Grief

Beautiful souls, It’s been a minute! It’s been a second! It’s also been what feels like an eternity. It’s not just a case of time rushing...

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Expand Beyond Recovery || Payton Kennedy

Beyond Recovery Podcast Live your best life free from addictions. A lively conversation with fellow Canadian and Sobriety & Recovery...

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Movin' out, Movin' on

I have been residing part-time in a log cabin built in 1870 since just before Covid. I say part-time but it might be three-quarters. Then...

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The Never-Ending Winter, Some Rare Planetary Transits and Biting Off More Than I Can Chew…

Author Glennon Doyle said it. “We can do hard things.” Powerful. So powerful, this phrase has turned into a well-known mantra and a...