Tim Gorman
Six Steps From One Bad Afternoon To A Drink, And Where To Break The Chain Here’s a strange question to start your morning. What if your anger isn’t the problem? What if the real problem is that you’re terrified of being angry? I know. Sounds like splitting hairs. It isn’t. And you’ll see why the … Read More
Location 01 · Belief — where a man wrestles God until dawn and won’t let go, a desperate father prays the most honest prayer ever spoken, and a runaway saint discovers his childhood faith was only borrowed furniture The core principle over the Chapel door is six words long and it dismantles the thing most … Read More
Why the fight that “came out of nowhere” almost certainly didn’t — and how to interrupt the chain before somebody reaches for the emotional dynamite. Explosions. They don’t just spontaneously occur. Or do they? There you were, walking peacefully down the street with your beloved, discussing dinner plans, when she suddenly fell victim to a … Read More
The Recovery Map · Genesis 3, Genesis 16, 2 Samuel 12, 1 Kings 19 Adam in the garden: come out of hiding The first question God ever asks a human being is not “What have you done?” It’s not “How could you?” It’s four words, called out across a garden to a man crouched in … Read More
Systems. Communities. Individuals A system is not a pile of parts. It is a set of elements, connected in a particular arrangement, organized to do something. Donella Meadows compressed that into three components — elements, interconnections, and purpose — and argued that we routinely misjudge which of them matters. Elements are the easiest to see … Read More
A miserable Danish bachelor wrote the best relapse manual ever, and never mentioned alcohol once Søren Kierkegaard died at 42. He never had a drinking problem that anybody knows of. He wrote in a language almost nobody read, under fake names, mostly about Christianity, in a small city where he was considered a local weirdo. … Read More