Almost a decade ago, during our first mission with the Church's Family Services in Arizona, the culture within the Addiction Recovery Program centered on carefully protecting participants' anonymity. We put up privacy screens over the meeting room doors, held meetings in homes, paid attention to where participants parked their cars, and emphasized the importance of maintaining confidentiality within the group. Then something happened that changed me forever. During one sharin

Lessons from Jacques Lusseyran's And There Was Light Over the past several years, one of my greatest teachers about light has been a blind man. Jacques Lusseyran, author of And There Was Light, lost his eyesight at the age of seven. Yet instead of describing his life as one of darkness, he insisted that true light comes from within. As a leader in the French Resistance during World War II and later a survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp, Lusseyran discovered something ex

When we make a heroic effort to change the way we think about our triggers in recovery, we enhance our learning, memory, and ability to respond to stress in life. Our physical, mental, and emotional health improves.