Recovering The SelfA Journal of Hope and Healing

Ken La Salle

Rules For Life – One Last Rule

by Ken La Salle For the last three years, I’ve been welcoming you back each month as I’ve analyzed a series of rules we can use to help us through life …

Rules For Life – If You Want Your Life to Have Meaning

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. And I’m surprised to see that we’re nearly at the end of our list of rules. …

Rules For Life – People Are Happy To Tell You

Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. I thought I would open this article with a little good news. This is for anyone hesitating to follow …

Rules For Life – Answers or Excuses

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. Most of these essays are inspired by personal experience and this one is no different, …

Rules For Life – Recovery Party

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. While it has not been my policy during this series to trademark or, in any way, brand …

Finding a Better Reason

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. I was out walking through one of our regional parks the other day, enjoying the morning …

Rules For Life – Common Sense is not Cowardice

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. As part of my preparation for returning to the Pacific Crest Trail in 2017, I’ve …

Rules For Life – Focus on the Virtue

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. A few years ago, my optometrist gave me the kind of news you hear from a doctor that …

Rules For Life – A Toast To Those Who Are Gone

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. For most of my life, I didn’t really understand loss. I understood the trivial kind …

Rules For Life – Everything is a Blessing (Part Two)

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. When I wrote last month about everything being a blessing, I had no idea about the …

Rules For Life – Everything is a Blessing

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. Late last month, I set foot on the Pacific Crest Trail for what turned out to be a …

Rules For Life – Live Hard

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. Recently, I’ve had a number of doctors tell me about various parts of my body that …

Rules For Life – April’s Fooled

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. April Fools’ Day (or April 1st to those not “in the know”) is our yearly …

Nothing Is Protected

by Ken La Salle Some years ago, before my father died in Chandler, Arizona, he and I would drive through the desert, looking out at the saguaro cactus and he …

Rules For Life – Sharing Again

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. Do you remember sharing? When was the last time you shared? Sharing is usually a large …

Rules For Life – Stay Hungry

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. Since I wrote about letting go of dissatisfaction last month, this month I thought I …

Rules For Life – Letting Go Of Dissatisfaction

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. The new year wouldn’t be complete without a resolution and here’s what I’m …

Rules For Life – Enjoy it

by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. This month, my goal is to help you enjoy those moments of your life that may not be so …

Rules For Life – What’s Your Plan B?

by Ken La Salle Last week, I took a hike along the Pacific Crest Trail with a backpack that was far too heavy, with maps that weren’t very good, with a water …

Rules For Life – Knowing Where

by Ken La Salle Look to your left. Now, look to your right. Now, consider this. Most of the problems we face in life originate from an inadequate understanding …

Rules For Life – Making Us think

by Ken La Salle You see it happen every year, a chorus rising out of homes and schools around the country and even around the world. “Why do I have to learn …

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