Terrific Tuesdays: Getting Better at Being Human!

TITLE: When Your Safety Mechanism Becomes Your Sabotage DESCRIPTION: Welcome back to Terrific Tuesday's: Getting Better at Being Human. This week I'm sharing something I just figured out - and it's one of those insights that makes you go "Holy shit, I've been doing this to myself the whole time." I overslept this weekend and missed hiking plans with a friend. My first tho...

Welcome back to Terrific Tuesday's: Getting Better at Being Human. This is Part 2 of our deep dive into the Beatitudes - seven timeless principles for dealing with anxiety, suffering, and becoming a better version of yourself. Last episode we covered being poor in spirit, mourning, being meek, and hungering for righteousness. Today we're finishing with the final three: being merciful, pure...

Episode 25 explores the first four Beatitudes - ancient principles for transformation. Whether you're in recovery, dealing with anxiety, or working on personal growth, these tools address the root causes of suffering. We cover: admitting powerlessness, grief work, letting go of control, and desperate pursuit of change. Not religious teaching - practical survival tools."#Anxiety #Recovery...

I'm sitting here at 15,420 days sober - over 42 years - and I just discovered a character defect I didn't even know existed. How is that possible? How do you work the steps multiple times, do years of inventories, and STILL get blindsided by something that's been running your life the whole time? Here's what happened: Recently, while processing the end of my 29-year relationship, B...

I've been doing the work for decades. 15,413 days sober, one day at a time. Therapy. Meetings. Step work. Prayer. All of it. And it's still hard. I'm still struggling with anxiety. Still catching myself in the same patterns. Still dealing with wounds from when I was seven years old. Still working on forgiving people who hurt me decades ago. Some days that makes me furious. Not because...

A couple episodes ago, I mentioned my friend Keith who left me a comment. Keith and I go way back—we worked together when I was in my first marriage. When the company closed its doors, not only was I asked to leave the job, but my first wife asked for a divorce. Keith saw my anxiety back then, and we've kept in touch over the years. Keith's message to me was powerful. My interpretation? Lo...

I spoke at a meeting Sunday night and something happened that I need to talk about. After I shared that I've been sober 15,397 days—ONE DAY AT A TIME—and I'm STILL doing the work, still dealing with anxiety, still discovering wounds I didn't know I was carrying, several people cried. Not during my talk, but after. When we were just standing around talking. What they kept coming back to...

Scientists recently discovered that anxiety might be controlled by immune cells in our brains called microglia—not just neurons like we always thought. These cells work like competing pedals: one pushes anxiety forward, the other holds it back. Learning this didn't stop my anxiety from showing up. It just helped me recognize the pattern when it did. Lately, my anxiety has been showing up as th...

Episode 19: I Heard You (And You're Not Alone) For 18 episodes, I've been telling you MY anxiety story. This one's about YOU. I think about my anxiety like a lion coming up over my shoulder. Sometimes it's just padding behind me. Other times the massive paws land on my shoulders, I hit the ground, and my head gets swallowed whole. Maybe your version isn't a lion. Maybe it's...

Episode 18: When Do I Stop Waiting for My Life to Start? I've spent 66 years waiting for my life to finally begin. Waiting until I'm organized enough, fixed enough, ready enough to actually start living. This week I caught myself doing it again - asking for the perfect timeline system that would finally make me into the person I'm supposed to be. And someone pointed out: "You'...

My youngest daughter taught me years ago: "I needed you to help, Daddy. Not take over." Apparently, I'm still learning that lesson. This week I'm talking about the pattern of trying to fix everything for everyone - and how it's rooted in anxiety. The need to control outcomes, to manage situations, to make myself valuable by solving problems - that's all anxiety trying to keep me safe. But it doesn...

Progress not perfect. Learning to be gentle with yourself instead of beating yourself for not finishing. We claim spiritual progress not spiritual perfect. Stick with it, recognize how much you are doing and take the credit. #Alcoholism, #codependancy, #loving you self. #you are love, t #personal growth. #twelve steps, #gethelp

When what we need is something that isn't a motivational platitude. When you really listen we learn that it isn't motivation, or a pep talk, what we really need is someone to understand and address the feelings more appropriately. #anxiety, #depression, #learning to change, #getting better, #livingsober, #helpfultips on living

Funny take on therapy and how a simple pet can be therapy along the way. A humorous take on support and becoming better humans. Anxiety, depression, loneliness, alone, understanding what we need is sometimes space. #Anxiety, #Panic, #Lonliness, #Alone, #Depression, #Anxious attachment, #Panic Attachments, #Therapy

We change the Title to Terrific Tuesday's: Getting Better at Being Human because we are getting better, and we able to laugh now, even at ourselves. If you feel you aren't, go back to the darker moments of episode 1 thru 8 to get something missing. #Anxiety, #recovery, #self-esteem, #depression, #spiritual growth

#Anxiety, #panic, #loneliness #depression Brutal Honesty as a start to your life changing drastically, Honesty matters in building relations. THIS is how we change!!

Loneliness a direct or indirect by product of anxiety, depression, and a plethora of other challenges is one of the hardest and most dangerous emotions and or pain for people even those without panic or anxiety or depression. It is the cause of a high number of suicides. Listen in for some sound advice and a pathway.

On to happier lighter topics and growth!! Season 2 is about healing, getting better, attacking anxiety and other life problems with the tools we can develop.

Anxiety affects everyone that is a part of our life's. A fresh look at what happens and the realization that of how to change. Anxiety, catastrophic thinking, Panic, moods, racing thoughts, worst casescenarios

This podcast topic takes a look at the unrealistic view that prayer lone can cure certain types of mental health. It looks at the "and " theory of God and mental health treatments and how together they can work miracles.

What happens when you don't remain true to your inner most self. What happens when you live a lie about who you are when what you are is so much better and true version of yourself. Other people can already see the true you and love you for it, why would you want to be anything else.

Self Love- Being kind to yourself as a means to managing anxiety. Managing anxiety and greatly reducing anxiety by looking at your everyday brain talk.

Let's leave the darkness of the path and get to recovery. Life is fun even with the occasional "bad day." It doesn't mean we are failing, no matter what our brain tries to tell us. Put in the work, and watch what happens. I'm here and together, well together we stand.

My brain has an excellent weather forecasting system, except it's always wrong

This is where my brain tries to tell me all the things that are not true to keep me in my brain wasting valuable living time