Tim Sample: Finding Peace in the Unknown
Maine humorist Tim Sample has nearly 30 years in recovery. Now approaching 75, he recently retired after thousands of shows. Recovery taught him to rest in the unknown and accept life as it is.
Topic
Mindfulness and Meditation
Mindfulness without the mystique — breath, attention, calm, and consistent practice. How to start, what helps, and why it sticks.
17 stories
Beyond Dry January: Self-Observation
Sarah reaches for a glass of wine at five o'clock, same as every weekday. She doesn't think about it anymore; her hand just knows the routine. But when January arrives, she pauses. What happens when a…
Unlocking Your Body’s Natural Calm
When stress tightens your chest and your thoughts race, your body already knows how to find calm. Dr. Steven Porges discovered a special nerve that runs through your face, neck, and chest, waiting to…
Reilly Harvey: Worthy – Navigating Recovery and Healing
Reilly Harvey runs a Maine painting business called We Paint. A mother and partner, she makes prayer and meditation part of daily life and finds strength in fellowship and service.
Inhale Goodness, Exhale Wellness
When your shoulders tense and breath catches during a stressful moment, your body is sending a signal. You can answer back. This piece explores how intentional breathing practices, drawn from yoga tra…
Nurturing Your Intentions: Empowering Change from Within
January arrives with possibility, and you set your intention. By February, it's gone. The article explores why our resolutions fade and how to build the internal fuel that sustains change. Discover ho…
Holistic Recovery: Blending Traditional & New Therapies
You're sitting with a horse, learning to brush its mane, when something shifts inside you. Holistic recovery combines traditional medical treatment with approaches like equine therapy, art, meditation…
Discovery Recovery with Choices
Karen St. Clair woke one morning and noticed how her mood at dawn differed from dusk. She realized she made thousands of choices daily, each one shaping her emotional landscape. Through discovering EF…
Recovery Discovery for NoMoPhobia
Maria reaches for her phone before her eyes open. When the battery dies during her commute, her chest tightens. She's not alone. Millions experience NoMoPhobia, an anxiety triggered by smartphone sepa…
Sensational Radar
After years of numbing pain through survival mode, someone realized their body held vital signals they'd learned to ignore. By tuning into physical sensations tied to emotions, they discovered how to…
Sarah Langevin
Sarah closes the bathroom door in her Auburn home, not to hide, but to breathe. Four children play beyond it. Inside, she thanks the frustration and anger visiting her body, then lets them go. This sm…
The Power of Consistency
Someone in recovery sits down to meditate for five minutes. Just five. They do it again tomorrow, and the day after. A year later, they've meditated over 1,800 times. This piece explores how small, re…
Daily Self-Care Recovery Practices: Part 2
Someone in early recovery once described themselves as fog waiting to lift. That simple act of writing, of naming where they stood, became part of something larger. This piece explores ten daily pract…
Lisa Silverman
Lisa Silverman sits in a coffee shop, radiant and grounded, a far cry from 1989 when she drank to blackout and felt trapped. After treatment and holistic training in meditation, nutrition, and breathw…
How to Start Meditating
You sit in a chair, spine upright but shoulders relaxed, noticing where air enters your nostrils. Your mind wanders instantly. Instead of fighting back, you simply notice and return. This article brea…
Quieting the Mind
Sarah Siegel sat alone in her room over fifteen hundred miles from her son, needle in arm, and understood she would die. She got on her knees and asked for help. What followed was meditation, a practi…
Jennie Joan Ferrare
Jennie Joan Ferrare, 29, runs Arcana, a healing studio in Portland's Old Port, and its yoga school. She is coming up on five years sober and is a new mom to baby Leo.