by Duncan McLeod | Feb 15, 2024 | Alcohol free, inner child, Life Skills, Sobriety
What Eckart Tolle calls a pain body, others refer to as a wounded theme of consciousness. It is a clump of tangled negative energy brought into existence by my mind’s naive interpretation of life’s knocks and trapped within my being. A pain body can lie...
by Duncan McLeod | Jan 13, 2024 | Alcohol free, Freedom, Life Skills
If I understand the mechanics of my car, I can fix it when it goes wrong. Likewise, if I understand the mechanics of a human being, I can fix myself when I go adrift. Here are the three steps I used to resolve my unhealthy dependency on alcohol. ONE I...
by Duncan McLeod | Dec 14, 2023 | Alcohol free, Living without alcohol, Recovery, sober curious, Sobriety, staying sober
I haven’t stopped drinking; I have become a non-drinker. Those two things may seem the same, but they are profoundly different. A drinker tries to stop drinking, whereas a non-drinker just-doesn’t-drink (There’s a clue in the title)...
by Duncan McLeod | Sep 24, 2023 | Freedom
To be or not to be – Free? Autonomy Independence Emancipation Self-government Liberty Release Or Dependence Captivity Subjugation Enslavement Imprisonment So Peaceful vs Suffering On the world’s political stage, these are words denoting the state of play...
by Duncan McLeod | Sep 14, 2023 | Life Skills, Sobriety
What do I think is real? Does thinking it make it so? I accept that the chair I sit on is real because I can A) see and B) feel it. I experience both confirmation senses via my brain. I am used to relying on my brain to tell me what is and what is not, and like...
