Emotional Sobriety: The Next Step in Recovery
Emotional Sobriety: The Next Step in Recovery
Allen Berger & Thom Rutledge
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22 minutes Posted Jan 12, 2026 at 4:44 am.
pm (Berlin), 6:30pm (Ireland & UK), 1:30pm EST, 10:30am PST
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Today’s Nutshell Wisdom: The big difference between passing judgment and exercising judgment: One focuses attention on something I do not control. The other focuses on precisely what I do control.
Today we’re back to the serenity prayer and describing what emotional sobriety’s “discovery of new possibilities” could practically mean.
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