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.
Topic
Spiritual Practice
Spirituality on your terms — religious, secular, or somewhere in between. Tradition, trauma, principles, and the practices that bring people back to themselves.
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Embracing Our Wild Mind: Eco-Spirituality and Recovery
A father and child roast potatoes in November coals, and the potato tastes like wood smoke and crisp air, like something lost long ago. For people in recovery, reconnecting with nature's wildness can…
Eco-Spirituality: Discovering Faith in Nature
Maria sits by the river near her home, watching light dance across the water. She's learned to see this moment as sacred, part of something larger than herself. This excerpt explores how people discov…
Wellbriety
Angela grew up erased from her Sicangu Sioux identity, teased for her heritage in a Maine classroom. Years into recovery, she found something crucial missing until Wellbriety connected her to Native s…
Recovery Allies – Spiritual Health in Recovery
Sarah finds peace washing dishes, mopping floors, sensing wonder in tasks most people rush through. Alison Webb's Recovery Allies explores how spiritual health shapes recovery differently for each per…
Coming Home: Eco-Spirituality & Recovery
A man stands on a wooden footbridge watching ice creep across Hubbard Brook, counting the open patches of water. This moment of attention to the natural world becomes his gateway to recovery. When dis…
Religious and Spiritual Trauma: 5 Ways to Start Recovering
Someone turns to their faith for comfort during crisis, only to experience harm instead. When religion or spirituality becomes a source of pain rather than healing, the damage cuts deeper because your…
Disbelief to Belief
In a hospital gown, certain she had mono, a woman learned instead she was pregnant. Disbelief had ruled her life for years, keeping her trapped in addiction and denial. When facts finally overwhelmed…
Working In Harmony With Spiritual Principles
A manager sat at her desk, convinced she knew better than everyone around her. She micromanaged relentlessly, controlled every detail, and never asked for help. Years into her recovery journey, she re…
Brave the Unknown With Spirit
Standing before the mirror, she promises herself, "I can do this." After reinventing herself through multiple chapters, some shadowed by struggle, she's learned that breath grounds her. Now she shares…
Spirit Illuminated
A person discovers their intuition speaking through warm sand beneath their feet, through forests explored and love felt deeply. This spiritual awakening becomes a path toward understanding how humans…
The Search for Serenity
A TV character yells "serenity now" at his blood pressure, hoping words alone will melt away his anger. It doesn't work. But a prayer written nearly a century ago offers something deeper: not a magic…
There’s No Place Like Home
A woman realizes her years of searching outward for belonging missed something crucial: home lives inside her, in how she sees herself and her world. This piece explores how your deepest beliefs shape…
Home is not ‘there,’ it’s ‘here’
For years, she chased a mythical "there": the right job, the perfect body, a love that would finally make her whole. She filled the emptiness with drugs, alcohol, and self-hatred. It wasn't until reha…
The Wellbriety Movement
Don Coyhis spent a decade in recovery, then felt called to do more. In 1988, he founded White Bison to address alcoholism in Native American youth. That vision grew into the Wellbriety Movement, which…
Elaine Lilley
Elaine Lilley has gone more than four years without alcohol. She says her spiritual practice, including Shamanism, helps her stay on her path of sobriety each day.
The Link Between Spirituality and Health
A person stuck in patterns of substance use or emotional struggle isn't broken. They're out of alignment with their true nature. This article explores how reconnecting with your inner wisdom, breath,…