You are taking things too seriously?

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Stop beating yourself up!

The dice are loaded. The game isn't fair. You are imperfect. You make mistakes and have...


You've got to be really "with it" to know that you are not "with it."

This morning my brain was playing a tennis match between whether I was justified...


The truth will set you free but first it will anger you.

Nobody wants to hear that they should change. Nobody wants to take an honest self-examination....


"Ain't nobody messin' with you but you." - Robert Hunter

We may think they are the problem, but really we are the problem.  Our rigidity, ...


Sometimes "good enough" is all you need

Perfectionism is usually not a good thing. It can cause you depression and relapse....


Who cares?

So many of our problems are just petty. We worry about whether we are liked. We obsess...


I'm quite happy with who I am, thank you.

Being sober means being happy in your own skin regardless of what the World throws...


We need to focus less on the World outside us and more on the World within us

That person seems stupid. I would sure like to have that car. Why did that person...


Give time time.

Eventually it will all work out. I need to be less impatient. Problems either resolve,...


Sometimes it takes a storm to see how much time has been wasted worrying about the squalls.

The pandemic of 2020! The Great Famine of 1845! The Great Depressions of 1929 and...