The good thing about having an author write a column or an article is that you hear about a new book before the book is published; in my case, I’m talking about The Happy Heretic. It is the result of my spiritual awakening that happened years ago when I realized that everything I was told [...]

I’ve been in Twelve Step recovery for many years and yet I’m still “a seeker”. What I mean by this is that from a young age I was never comfortable with a black-or-white answer; I loved exploring the gray areas of life. Often I catch myself saying that I’m a Christian…and more. I never felt [...]

It is often said that the recovery journey is spiritual. But what does it really mean? I hope I’m not being “picky” when I say this, but I really do think that it is important to look at what we are saying and be able to explain it. To say that the recovery journey is [...]

Years ago I was impacted by a friend, Dr Conway Hunter, who said to me, “Leo, you need to think outside of the box.  Spirituality is not something that we explain, it’s something we experience”. Some years later I was attending The Spirit Conference in Los Angeles and I heard John Bradshaw say, “Poetry is [...]