Check out this section of music, meditations, poetry, podcasts and other items. Take what you like and throw out the rest. I don’t expect you to like or agree with everything listed, I just want to make these resources available to those who choose to explore, you are so worth it!
Podcasts/Workshops:
Restore-Healing After Betrayal Workshop
SA and S-ANON Workshops (Regional and International)
Songs that helped me:
I have an eclettic taste in music and during the first years of recovery my music choices either made me feel inspired or depressed depending on my mood on any given day.
“Roar“ by Katy Perry
“This is my Fight Song” by Rachel Patton
“Not for a Moment” by Betsy
“Give Me Your Eyes” by Brandon Heath
“Reason Why I Sing” by Kirk Franklin
“Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)” by Hillsong UNITED
“Golden” by Jill Scott
“Fireworks” by Katy Perry
“Now Behold the Lamb” by Kirk Franklin
“Beneath Your Beautiful” by Labrinth
“How Can It Be” by Lauren Daigle
“Flight from the City” by Johann Johannsson, Yuki Numata
“Walking” by Mary Mary
“God in Me” by Mary Mary
“Written on the Sky” by Max Richter
“Our Temperable Host” Host by Patrick O’Hearn
“One Voice” by The Wailin’ Jennys
“Please Forgive Me” by David Gray
“Lion” by Dustin O’Halloran & Hauschka
“Gabriel’s Oboe” by Ennio Morricone
“Somewhere Down the Road” by Amy Grant
Meditations:
Heal and Transform Hurts: Mindfulness Meditation for Emotional Pain
Acceptance Meditation
Guided Mindfulness Meditation on Acceptance and Letting Go
Belleruth Naparstek offers meditations for a fee. These were the first set of meditations I used. I purchased specific ones that dealt with what I was dealing with at the time. I still listen to them from time to time.
Poem:
Before You Cheat on Her Know This
Support Groups:
Women in the Battle Support Group
The Partners of Sex Addicts (PoSA)
Additional Tools:
RECOVERY/HEALING CHECKLIST
I know that I am in recovery/healing because:
□ I am better able to sleep again
□ The crippling emotional pain I have experienced is decreasing.
□ I am better able to function in a healthy manner taking care of personal responsibilities at home and on the job.
□ I am suffering less from the physical and emotional problems I have experienced prior to working the Twelve Steps.
□ I am learning to let go of the guilt questions like “What else could I have done?”
□ I am learning to allow others to accept responsibility for their decisions and actions.
□ I am learning to no longer neglect other family members and friends because of my obsession with the person having problems.
□ My relationships with family and friends are improving.
□ I am learning to set boundaries in my relationships.
□ I am learning to accept that I am ultimately powerless over someone else’s problems,
my life is becoming manageable.
□ I am finally accepting that I did not cause it, I cannot control it, and I cannot cure it. It is up to the addicted person to seek help for their own problems.
□ I am learning that my life is important too.
□ I am realizing that I have suffered enough for someone else’s choices.
□ I am more aware that my loved one has his/her own Higher Power, and it isn’t I !
□ I am wasting less of my time nagging, arguing or lecturing others about what they are doing with their lives.
□ I am focusing on my own life and living it “One Day at a Time.”
From: Families Anonymous, Inc.