March 13, 1993: In the darkness of my bedroom I could hear my phone ringing. I reached for my glasses and stared at the clock. It was just after 7 a.m., but somehow it seemed so dark in the room. I grabbed the phone and answered in my most professional voice. In response came a [...]

By Larry Smith, CAS “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts [...]

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, Ph.D.,TEP, MFA The gratitude visit (Seligman, Steen and Peterson, 2005) is one of the best-known and most-quoted of the positive psychology interventions. The intervention is simple: people are asked to deliver a letter of gratitude to a person who had been particularly kind to them, but whom they never properly thanked. [...]

Compassion is a foundational healing modality recovering addicts must learn. Using my book, The Craft of Compassion (Hand to Hand Publications, 2010), as the curriculum, I had the honor to work with Brandon Beckman teaching addicts and their families at L.A. Family Housing in North Hollywood. We guided them through the exploration of self-esteem via [...]

“Every cell in my body is tingling with euphoria.” This is one of the classic descriptions made by Olympic gold medalists after experiencing “The Zone”. Depending on the degree of life energy attributed to entering the Zone during an event, one can literally heal broken bones and organs instantly. We saw that very thing occur [...]

Do not feed your ego and your problems with your attention… Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us.” Eknath Easwaran [...]

Recovery is about an awakening. We are literally awakened from a restless sleep that has numbed our feelings and left us emotionally and spiritually groggy and exhausted. This awakening begins with the eye-opening experience and recognition of our powerlessness — with the recognition of our limitations and our need for help — and with the [...]