by Duncan McLeod | Aug 8, 2024 | Alcohol free, Life Skills, Living without alcohol, Recovery, Recovery from addiction, Sobriety
One year, eleven months, two weeks and three days ago, I initiated a program of change which began with removing alcohol and went on to help me amend patterns of behaviour and re-evaluate belief systems I held about me, my life and the world around me. What began as a...
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 | 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...
by Duncan McLeod | Sep 4, 2023 | life building,
Am I asleep right now? (Are you?) How could we be for I am writing and you are reading? Asleep is unconscious is unaware. Am I asleep? Maybe, but I am waking up. Sleep is that sublime place I adore drifting into at 9pm, and whence I emerge from 8 hours later,...
