by Kathy | Dec 8, 2016 | Addiction, Alcoholism, Change, New Beginnings, Recovery
Are you facing the holiday season full of fear and anxiety? Are you wishing you could just skip this season and jump to January? I felt this way in my first few years of recovery. I dreaded the season and all its festivities. The holidays can be anything but joyful if...
by Kathy | Nov 23, 2016 | Addiction, Alcoholism, EGCMethod, horses, Personality, Recovery
The process of listening only with your heart is a gift to others and to yourself. Horses have been doing it for ages. They don’t understand our words, but they do understand our hearts. During the course of becoming an Equine Gestalt Coach, we worked on the art...
by Kathy | Nov 4, 2016 | Addiction, Alcoholism, Bravery, Change, New Beginnings, Recovery, rehab
I had no choice. Unless I wanted to die, which I did not, I had to figure out why I drank and how to cope with the feelings that I numbed with alcohol: happy, sad, excited, bored, love, fear. I was in a rehab twice, once for about 7 days, and another for 30. My first...
by Kathy | Oct 21, 2016 | Addiction, Alcoholism, Change, horses, Neigh #1, Recovery, rehab, Sponsor
Take the Am I Alcoholic Self Test Here CLICK! I was reminded this week of the “Alcoholic Self Test” that I took years before I stopped drinking. I took the test, not because I thought that I drank too much, but to prove to myself that I didn’t. If I passed, then yay,...
by Kathy | Sep 22, 2016 | Addiction, Alcoholism, Change, EGCMethod, horses, Neigh #4, New Beginnings, Personality, Recovery
“You have to color outside of the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.” ~ Albert Einstein Many of us as children were told to stay inside of the lines while coloring a picture. For some kids that was really easy and for some others a...
by Kathy | Sep 15, 2016 | Addiction, Alcoholism, Change, EGCMethod, Neigh #1, Personality, Recovery
Change is inevitable. It’s when and how we choose to begin the change that is problematic. Fear has two faces for me: it’s what stops me from changing and it’s also what starts me on a journey of change. I have both fear of failure and fear of success. The thought of...
