addiction recovery

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Title graphic reading 'The Ancient Path: Why Habits Are So Hard to Break' beside a photo of sheep grazing along a worn dirt path through green hillside pastures, with the 'Turning The Page' logo below.

The Ancient Path: Why Habits Are So Hard to Break

I was brought up on a sheep farm, and one of the most fascinating features of that farm was the tracks the sheep made across the paddocks. Right in the middle of a field, you’d find this narrow, well-worn path — pressed down by hundreds of hooves, over and over, […]

Good things, like Mental Health, take Time. Let's be patient

No Shortcuts: Why Mental Health Recovery Takes Time

We all want immediate results. A change to our situation, but Mental Health recovery takes time, so let’s be patient with ourselves and others. ‘I wish this would go away’ were the unsaid words messaged in the face of despair, looking at me. I had seen that gaze many times, […]

It's Love That Wins The Blind Prodigal Back

It’s Love That Wins The Blind Prodigal Back

They were so caught up in themselves and their selfish desires that they got lost to the concerns of others. Without recognising the wealth of love around them, they were the prodigal, a child of abundance squandering it away.  What drew them back was a memory of love, faint and small, […]

Recovery Starts With a Question Being Asked

Quick answer: Real recovery rarely starts with a solution — it starts with someone being willing to ask a deep, honest question and stay present for the answer. The Biblical leader Nehemiah began the recovery of a devastated Jerusalem not with a plan, but by asking how the people and […]