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...
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Leigh-Anne Brierley
Jul 237 min
Abstinence, moderation and harm reduction in the management of my substance use disorder?
Abstinence, moderation management or harm reduction as a recovery choice. Dr Gabor Maté, a leading expert on addiction and trauma, uses...
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Leigh-Anne Brierley
Mar 289 min
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!?
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Leigh-Anne Brierley
Mar 67 min
What I continue to learn in my recovery and healing process: It's okay to not be okay!
What I've learned in my recovery and healing process: It's okay to not be okay! I celebrated 16 years of sobriety on 1st January 2024,...
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Leigh-Anne Brierley
Jan 712 min
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...
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Leigh-Anne Brierley
Dec 30, 202313 min
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...
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Leigh-Anne Brierley
Dec 17, 20236 min
Navigating the Dark: Healing from Loss in Addiction Recovery
Healing from loss in addiction recovery is challenging and recovery is not just a path littered with the debris of addiction...
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Leigh-Anne Brierley
Dec 17, 20227 min
WTF!? What the Fifty!?
I can't believe that I have turned 50! I mean where did all that time go!? I remember my 18th birthday vividly...
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Leigh-Anne Brierley
May 29, 20225 min
Feeling the Feelings | It's not an unmanaged mood disorder!
Sometimes the distances between myself and the people I love seem truly vast...
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Leigh-Anne Brierley
May 1, 20227 min
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...
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Leigh-Anne Brierley
Dec 31, 202112 min
14 Years...14ish Lessons
The lessons I have learned in my 14 years of recovery from an alcohol use disorder.
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Leigh-Anne Brierley
Nov 29, 202112 min
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...
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Leigh-Anne Brierley
Jul 4, 20214 min
I am Enough!?
Ever feel like you spend a whole lot of your life wondering if you're enough? Smart enough? Rich enough? Successful enough? Good looking...
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Leigh-Anne Brierley
Mar 7, 20216 min
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...
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Leigh-Anne Brierley
Feb 26, 20217 min
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...
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Leigh-Anne Brierley
Feb 2, 20214 min
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?
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Leigh-Anne Brierley
Jan 4, 20215 min
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...
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Leigh-Anne Brierley
Nov 21, 20205 min
What's in the Space?
...And it's also been a very challenging year for anyway courageous enough to be starting their recovery process.
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