Posts by Barb Nangle

Issue 146. December 12, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ There’s a popular saying in recovery circles that always makes me smile. People call it “stinkin’ thinkin.’” It’s the reminder that the problem isn’t you. The problem is the thoughts that have taken up residence in your mind and learned to sound like…

Issue 145. December 5, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ For most of my adult life, and honestly even part of my adolescence, I had this sense that something about me needed fixing. I kept thinking if I just read enough books, did enough workshops, journaled enough, or practiced the right spirituality, I’d…

Issue 144. November 28, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ As we head into the heart of the holiday season, I want to talk about something that steals our peace more than we realize. It slips into family gatherings, social events, and even the way we scroll through other people’s cheerful holiday posts.…

Issue 143. November 21, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ During the holidays, life tends to speed up while our internal world gets louder. And for many of us in recovery, this is exactly when decision-making can feel impossible. Some decisions are huge.  Others are tiny.  Yet the internal impact can be the…

Issue 142. November 14, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ If there is ever a season that tests our ability to live life on life’s terms, it is the holidays. Plans change. People behave in ways we wish they would not. Someone arrives late, someone cancels, someone says something that lands like a…

Issue 141. November 7, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ One of the most unexpected lessons I have learned in recovery is that I need to be prepared to lose people. That might sound cold or pessimistic at first, but stay with me. What I have really learned is how to hold love…

Issue 140. October 31, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ On the bottom of my laptop screen, for years, I had a quiet little reminder I saw dozens of times a day: Failure and learning are just part of the process. It helps me remember that failure isn’t proof that something’s wrong with…

Issue 139. October 24, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ There’s a phrase I came up with years ago that’s become one of the cornerstones of my recovery and boundaries work: Don’t live into the wreckage of the future. In recovery, we talk about cleaning up the wreckage of the past — making…

Issue 138. October 17, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ How Taking Responsibility (Not Blame) Transformed My Boundaries Of all the gifts I’ve received through 12-step recovery, the most life-changing one has been learning to understand my part in things. Before recovery, I truly had no idea that I was doing anything to…

Issue 137. October 10, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Act As If: The Boundary Between Pretending and Becoming When I first heard the phrase “act as if,” I didn’t grasp its depth. I thought it meant faking it till you make it, but it’s not about pretending. It’s about aligning your actions…