Notorious California GOP Rep. Darrell Issa says he may move to Texas after Prop 50 will likely make it impossible for him to win another election here. "I have to go where I can be of the most use," he said. [Bay Area News Group] A new poll suggests voters will be very unhappy with Republicans if their healthcare premiums spike next year. [New York Times]
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Researchers have found that mentalization is an undervalued treatment for people in addiction recovery. Mentalization-based treatment helps people reflect upon and redirect urges and impulses. Knowing one's mind, feelings, triggers, and motivations, however conflicted, improves outcomes in work, love, life, and re-creating a life. Better understanding of the inner states and traits of others is also useful. Secure attachment fosters mentalization or a capacity to understand, process, and manage one's inner life.
Now is not the time to see those videos. I don't think either of you is in the place to navigate the emotions they're going to dredge up. Moreover, if and when you do see them, that act needs to have a recovery-focused purpose. If they will help you make more specific amends or if he needs you to see something specific so that you can process together, that's one thing. But it doesn't sound like that's where either of you is at present.
The Reverend Joyce McDonald says a pastor once told her to "ask God what type of artist you are." She says God responded, "You're a testimonial artist." McDonald's testimonies come in the form of mostly unfired clay sculptures, sometimes embellished with glitter, nail polish, fabric, or paper towels. These figures are very small and simple (a mother and child, a woman praying) and almost naïve in affect (they carry titles like
Some of the funniest bits are about her raising her son. When she's ashamed of yelling at him: "It's like bitch-slapping E.T." When another mother in her son's class makes a passive-aggressive comment: "I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish."
Before Sergio Ardila joined the board of the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, he was one of its clients. Ardila, who describes himself as a recovering addict, attended his first Narcotics Anonymous meeting at the center in 2022, through its Rainbow Recovery program, and received rental assistance from the organization during a period of unemployment. "My story with the center is very personal," Ardila said. "I got involved to give back what the center has given."
Westmeath GAA player Luke Loughlin has told TDs and senators that he "could not believe" the response when he opened up about his struggles with alcohol and substance abuse four years ago.
I've never seen him look prouder than when he showed me the keys to his new place, and frankly, I don't know if I had ever felt so proud of him. It's funny how you can juggle so many different emotions at the same time, because I also remember feeling scared and concerned. How could he possibly afford this apartment and all the pricey things that went with it, like internet access and utilities?
I rely on a generator, a deep freezer, and a grill People love to ask about the bathroom situation. I say, "Next question." I'm out here doing something extraordinary, working to save the world, and you want to know where I pee? I was an outsider, but felt at home on the island Sand Island is different: it's essentially a wasteland of sand and poison ivy. There were no structures or docks.
Many executives and professionals use alcohol not out of recklessness, but as a quiet coping mechanism—the after-hours drink that takes the edge off, the glass that settles nerves before a presentation, all rationalized by continued success.
"Sharma, a former leader in the recovery industry, is accused of submitting $149 million in fraudulent insurance claims, along with conducting unnecessary tests and paying illegal kickbacks."
Even while the hotel was operating, Trudeau said, it was home to drug dens and prostitution. Now the overt substance use has proliferated on the street, he said, along with overdoses and the occasional fire.
