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Self-Love in Recovery: What Does it Really Mean?
Self-love is a term we hear in recovery, personal growth and development circles all the time, but what does it really mean?
Leigh-Anne Brierley
Oct 18, 20249 min read
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Living My Purpose: Becoming a Recovery Coach
Once upon a time I was a chronic binge drinker. So let’s call it what it is – an alcoholic. It’s a cringey type of word that elicits...
Leigh-Anne Brierley
Aug 14, 20246 min read
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Rebuilding Self-Worth and Worthiness in Recovery
Building your self-worth in recovery is an important part of your healing process. If you're in the early stages of recovery...
Leigh-Anne Brierley
Aug 12, 20246 min read
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The Journey Through Inner Healing: A Path to Self-Discovery and Wellness
The year didn't start well , and there are definitely some ongoing challenges, but I have taken the opportunity to do some powerful...
Leigh-Anne Brierley
Jun 10, 20246 min read
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Will I be boring now that I've stopped using drugs and alcohol?
Will I be boring now that I've stopped using? So you’ve decided to try recovery and stopped using drugs and/or alcohol!?
Leigh-Anne Brierley
Mar 28, 20249 min read
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Rising Above the Stigma: A Guide to Overcoming Shame and Embracing Addiction Recovery
Rising Above the Stigma: A Guide to Overcoming Shame and Embracing Addiction Recovery What is addiction? And how come I ended up with...
Leigh-Anne Brierley
Jan 7, 202412 min read
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Embrace the New Year: Setting Intentions to Support Your Recovery
As the old year wraps itself up and a new one dawns, it's a natural time for introspection, personal growth, and setting intentions...
Leigh-Anne Brierley
Dec 30, 202313 min read
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Building Resilience and Grit: Unleashing the Power of Positive Psychology in Addiction Recovery
Building resilience and grit, and unleashing the Power of Positive Psychology in Addiction Recovery. The process of addiction recovery is...
Leigh-Anne Brierley
Nov 12, 20236 min read
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Alchemy Wellness...It's a Kinda Recovery Magic
Spiritual Alchemy is the act of inner transformation. It is healing and freeing the inner parts of ourselves that need to be changed.
Leigh-Anne Brierley
Aug 9, 20235 min read
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Managing My Addiction Triggers in Recovery
Managing triggers in recovery can be challenging! Learning to effectively manager triggers is an important part of sustainable recovery...
Leigh-Anne Brierley
Jun 17, 20237 min read
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Some things I know now that I didn't know 15 years ago!
Waking up on new year's day with a clear head, heart, and conscience is one of the great joys of my recovery. I may lie in bed on 31st...
Leigh-Anne Brierley
Jan 1, 20237 min read
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Feeling the Feelings | It's not an unmanaged mood disorder!
Sometimes the distances between myself and the people I love seem truly vast...
Leigh-Anne Brierley
May 29, 20225 min read
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Thank You for the Music
It's a funny thing that music can do...laugh, cry, dance, sing-a-long, and invoke so many BIG memories. Tonight I decided to put on my...
Leigh-Anne Brierley
May 1, 20227 min read
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It's Not About the Money...
"I'm not afraid of dying; I just don't want to be there when it happens," is a Woody Allen quote I recall hearing someone use in a matric...
Leigh-Anne Brierley
Nov 29, 202112 min read
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What Does it Really Mean to be in Recovery?
Sobriety and recovery are not the same thing. Clean time and wellness are different. Being clean and sober doesn't necessarily equate to...
Leigh-Anne Brierley
Mar 7, 20216 min read
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You are not a car! And you are not broken!
I am committed to my work as a coach; supporting my clients in their recoveries from substance use and addiction disorders. I strive to...
Leigh-Anne Brierley
Feb 26, 20217 min read
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Are You in the Arena Getting Your Ass Kicked?
Are you out there doing your own personal work? Or sitting on the sidelines running commentary while others show up and do theirs?
Leigh-Anne Brierley
Feb 2, 20214 min read
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Lucky Number Thirteen
There seems to be an idea that 13 is an unlucky number and even after reading the history.com article "What's So Unlucky About the Number...
Leigh-Anne Brierley
Jan 4, 20215 min read
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