Healing – The Devotional Guy™

Words Are Energy

I’ve ruminated about how much our self talk influences us. We tend to think of words as small things. Passing things. Temporary things. Things that disappear as quickly as they’re spoken. But if you’ve lived long enough, you know that isn’t true. Some words stick. They echo in your mind years after they are uttered.Continue reading “Words Are Energy”

Something Different, Something New

Hey friends! Thanks for faithfully reading my blogposts and for your continuous encouragement. I’ve been writing and blogging for a while, but even more during my recovery from complicated grief and post-traumatic stress disorder. Recently, I started writing and publishing some stuff on Substack, another online writing platform. I try to write and publish contentContinue reading “Something Different, Something New”

How Addiction Recovery Prepared Me for Overcoming PTSD

Recovery teaches you things most people would never learn on purpose. First and foremost, recovering from alcohol and substance abuse teaches you how to survive yourself. Years ago, when I began the long road out of alcoholism and addiction, I thought recovery was about stopping something. If I could only stop drinking, stop getting high,Continue reading “How Addiction Recovery Prepared Me for Overcoming PTSD”