Sobriety has been the most life-affirming path for me.
The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.
Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.
I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.
After heart surgery you can go two ways, you can kind of get scared, shrink on to your sofa and keep yourself safe, or you can engage with life again. I probably was in danger of taking the first option.
One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.
It's all been a blessing, just being able to focus on my health and redouble the efforts on recovery. It's been a long path. I still have chronic pain.
If we are going to continue our path to economic recovery, if we're going to continue our strong health response, I'm asking Queenslanders for a majority government.
The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that now poison the present.
Thus, the questions we should ask here are what makes the current economic upswing different from the past two recoveries, and whether such differences are sufficient for the economy to reach the sustained growth path.