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"Fear"-a basic, intense, and often unpleasant emotion aroused by the detections of imminent threat, danger, or pain, triggering a physiological fight or flight response. This is the Webster's dictionary of fear. If I asked myself if I lived my life in fear, the answer would emphatically be "no". Of course I don't...what is there to be afraid of on a constant daily basis? But what I have come to find is that this emotion affected my life far more than I ever realized. What

When I first came into the program, I was a broken, beat down person. I was living in quiet desperation. My body had been torn up, my mental health was non-existent. I was depressed, anxious, self centered, full of fear, suicidal, and broken. By this time I had a couple of rounds in residential treatment facilities. While in treatment we learned coping mechanisms, our bodies began to heal, our minds began to clear and we were introduced to gratitude. When I found my fir

How balanced is your life? For me finding balance in my life has been an ongoing struggle. Especially while trying to navigate early sobriety. The issue has always been finding ways to fill in the hours that I'm no longer spending drinking. Suddenly I'm left with space. Space to learn, space to heal, to play, to explore, to contemplate, space to cry, space to reflect, and space to dwell on things unnecessary. The positives and the negatives. What I chose to do with this s

The timeless classic, king of all cookies, has got to be the chocolate chip cookie. Its sweet and salty, crispy, yet soft and caramelly (if that's even a word) in all the right spots. In my opinion the best chocolate chip cookie is big, crisp on the edge yet chewy in the center with chocolate in every bite. I've baked hundreds of chocolate chip cookies and thus far they all seem to fall short. It's either too thin, too thick, not enough chocolate chips, too hard or just la