by Duane Osterlind | Mar 29, 2022 | Blog
Anxiety and worry are things we all can struggle with at times and the core of those feelings is fear. But at some point, we have to realize we have our own loving power that’s bigger than our fear. And we need to claim that to free ourselves from the bondage of pain...
by Duane Osterlind | Mar 22, 2022 | Blog
We’re in the worst phase of human history where people are so stressed out, so afraid of judgment, and tentative as it relates to saying anything these days because of this “cancel culture” society. We have lost an enormous amount of substance and the ability to...
by Duane Osterlind | Mar 15, 2022 | Blog
Son of Pakistani American immigrants, Shahjehan Khan grew up as an average American young person in the suburbs of Massachusetts. When 9/11 happened, he remembers being a senior in high school, sitting in a calculus class. At that time, he was already a...
by Duane Osterlind | Mar 11, 2022 | Blog
The stigma of addiction is so bad that people who are struggling with it choose to hide it. However, addiction is not the real problem, but rather the symptom of all these underlying hurts, pains, and suffering. Writer, speaker, and activist, David Poses was a...
by Duane Osterlind | Mar 8, 2022 | Blog
A lot of people are oblivious to recurring issues they encounter in life when those are actually the result of some unresolved childhood trauma manifesting in different ways. Whether it’s addiction, alcoholism, a toxic romantic relationship, a dysfunctional...
by Duane Osterlind | Mar 1, 2022 | Blog
Recovery is tricky. With alcoholism, for instance, people assume that if you remove the alcohol because alcohol is the problem, then you should get better. But people in the first 30 days of recovery don’t get better, they get worse. Addiction is referred...
