I spent the first decade of my career as a therapist working in addiction and recovery treatment. Helping people enter a process of recovery, after they’ve reached the end of the road with drugs, alcohol, or some other compulsive behavior, is still what I absolutely love to do. If you know me or have ever worked with me, that probably won’t surprise you.

After all, recovery is a process that has LOVE written all over it!

In order to successfully recover from addiction, we have to connect to a source of strength, power, and comfort that is truly beyond ourselves. Beyond our drug of choice, certainly. And beyond what we are already familiar with. Which makes sense, because if what we were already comfortable with could help us, then why wouldn’t it have worked already? 😜

The most important life decision you can possibly make is the choice to be led by a source of love, rather than letting fear make your decisions for you.

The turning point in my recovery didn’t happen when I made the choice to get completely sober from drugs and alcohol. It was when I allowed myself to admit that I was starved for love. It was that admission that made me willing — FINALLY! — to open myself up to learning how to give and receive lots and lots MORE of it.

I believe that everyone can learn how to be led by love… to give and receive love… and to connect to the power, the strength, and the comfort of TRUE LOVE, whenever they want to.