Addiction Recovery

There is a Japanese proverb that goes: fall down seven times, stand up eight. It describes something nearly everyone goes through on the way to change. Notice the arithmetic. The proverb does not say you will stop falling. It assumes you will fall seven times. The only number that matters is the last one. Falling…

A traditional parable. A traveler was crossing a mountain trail after dark when the ground gave way beneath him. He dropped into the blackness, and as he fell his hand closed around a branch growing out of the cliff. He held on. All night he hung there, arms burning, freezing, calling out for someone to…