Phoenix Rising
Surrender is that moment when we realize and acknowledge to our innermost selves that we cannot stop drinking, that the option to “not drink” has been removed, that will power and desire to stop drinking have no effect to change our behavior. We may use different internal and external words like “I need help” or “I cannot do this anymore” or “I’m through living in this hell.” Before surrender, our life is one of attempts to manage and control our drinking and everything else in our life.
A Layperson’s Guide to Understanding Research and Data Analysis
This book is written for busy people who need to understand the information that is flooding them and find ways to interpret it. You may be a business executive, a medical doctor, a stay-at-home mother or father wanting to understand the Gallup poll results in the daily newspaper, or a student studying nursing, counseling, psychology, sociology, or even mathematics. Yet you need to quickly be brought into the world of research and data analysis.
Pandemic: A CALL TO LOVE
Dr. Rose Bruce is a professional Social Science researcher with thirty years of experience writing research reports and books on research and spiritual awareness. Through this lens, she describes her personal and professional reaction to the unfolding of the Covid-19 pandemic from March 21, 2020, to May 14, 2020. During these eight weeks of “shelter in place” living, Dr. Bruce recounts daily news updates, inspirational readings, thoughts, and feelings as the Covid-19 virus spread across the United States and the world.
My Spiritual Unfolding
My spiritual rebirth from that day until today has sometimes been sudden and at most times gradual. This book reflects some of my thoughts from recovery and from the past eighteen months studying and attending The Center for Spiritual Living in Santa Rosa, California.
The Gift
Of Sobriety
This sensitive account is meaningful to anyone who may have deep spiritual longing. The author gradually moves from feeling totally broken to a life of renewal and hope.
About
The Author
Rose loves to learn. In fact, she has dedicated her life to learning, teaching, and analyzing data for many organizations. She earned a BA in psychology, an MA in counseling, an EdD in quantitative methods in educational psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and a PhD in integral energy medicine from Holos Graduate School.
About
The Author
Rose loves to learn. In fact, she has dedicated her life to learning, teaching, and analyzing data for many organizations. She earned a BA in psychology, an MA in counseling, an EdD in quantitative methods in educational psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and a PhD in integral energy medicine from Holos Graduate School.
About
The Book
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of Alcoholics Anonymous. In that tradition, the author has decided to withhold her last name on this book which chronicles her gradual spiritual transformation from the first day she walked into an AA meeting until nine months later.
About
The Book
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of Alcoholics Anonymous. In that tradition, the author has decided to withhold her last name on this book which chronicles her gradual spiritual transformation from the first day she walked into an AA meeting until nine months later.
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When this is past…
Praise Song for the Pandemic
Soul and Spirit
the perfection of the Soul and Spirit
Spiritual Mind Treatment
Unconditional Love is the basis of all that is: seen and unseen.
The spiritual life reveals clearly that God’s grace is our sufficiency in all things.
Living in the Presence
In Alcoholics Anonymous we learn to live in what is referred to in the Big Book as the fourth dimension. This is a powerful shift in consciousness. When I came into AA I was full of fear. The past was over, the present included profound grief over the loss...
Surrender
Surrender is that moment when we realize and acknowledge to our innermost selves that we cannot stop drinking, that the option to “not drink” has been removed, that will power and desire to stop drinking have no effect to change our behavior. We may use...
Is God Feminine or Masculine?
What is your concept of God? Usually, it is influenced by your religious and spiritual upbringing, your culture, your society… I have found that unconsciously my limiting beliefs of God were influenced by important male figures in my past who had let me...
Heart or Mind: Which is the Higher Intelligence?
In the modern Western world, we are taught that the rational mind is the source of intelligence. We seek answers through the scientific method of formulating a hypothesis, testing that hypothesis by gathering...
Intellectual Influences on the Twelve Steps
Intellectual Influences on the Twelve Steps Rose Bruce, EdD, PhD It is well known that the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (1) were developed by Bill W (William Griffith Wilson), (2) Doctor Bob (Bob Smith,) (3) and 100...
People Of Distinction with Al Cole
“This Week in America”
with RIC BRATTON.
Kirkus Review
Kirkus noticed that the author cleverly adhered to AA’s “One day at a time” slogan because her entries “do feel very much of the moment.”.