Recovering The SelfA Journal of Hope and Healing

Ken La Salle

Rules For Life – Drawing Your Bottom Line

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. Yesterday, I found myself waiting at my auto mechanic’s shop. I had taken my wife’s …

Rules For Life – That Door Won’t Open Itself

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. It’s a situation some of us are faced with every day. You are walking into a building …

Rules For Life – Honor Yourself

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. In the course of my writing career, I have had occasion to sign a variety of contracts …

Rules For Life – Don’t Confuse Yourself For Selfish

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. Last year, I wrote about some of the big rules, rules that help us understand the big …

Rules For Life – Testing the Rules

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. I began this series just one year ago and, in that time, we’ve discussed some of the …

Rules For Life – The World Can Inspire You

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. You know what I don’t understand? People who lack passion. I simply don’t …

Rules For Life – Some Days

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. As writing has become my full-time career, I’ve utilized systems to help me do my job …

Rules For Life – No ‘Backsies’

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. Last month, I wrote about life’s perpetual and inescapable move forward. Once …

Rules For Life – Life is a One-Way Trip

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. Recently, I’ve been working on a new book about growing up in the 1970s. It’s been …

Rules For Life – Isolation is Illusion

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. This month, I’d like you to take a moment, stop whatever you’re doing, and take in …

Rules For Life – Beyond Boredom

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. When I was a boy, I was highly susceptible to boredom. My eyes would gloss over at the …

Thou Art That

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. One important element in every life that I’ve been leaving out of these articles so …

And Still, There Is Water

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. This month, I would like to talk about something that was missing for much of my life. …

First Do No Harm

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. If we’re going to establish some rules for life, rules that make life easier, that …

Why Have Rules For Life?

by Ken La Salle In my last article, I shared with you my plan to examine some of the rules we each have that guide us in our everyday behavior. These rules …

When Are We Too Old To Dream?

Though it may be too late for you to send presents, I thought I’d share with you that my birthday passed very recently. It happened on October 16th; I turned …

That One Person

by Ken La Salle  “I’m not going to be one of your fans.” She said this to me shortly after she found out I was a writer. You see, she had split up with …

Everything de’Olde is New

by Ken La Salle Last month, I wrote about finding the freedom to return to a part of your dream you had once loved but left behind. But what about having the …

Blazing Your Trail

by Ken La Salle This article was written for someone who has already begun pursuing their dream. They’ve worked very hard to get to where they are – but …

Dreams Grow as You Grow

In the course of any dream, any career, and indeed any life, things change. They change so much it can sometimes be scary. It’s a familiar story: Someone …

The Tragedy of Impotence

Guest Blogger: Ken La Salle I used to tell people about how much I wished I didn’t have a dream. When it came to wanting to be a writer, there were times …

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