A teaching memoir by Lori Baynham
Follow this remarkable story of how a fellow runner and alcoholic in recovery led Lori to the transformative path of emotional sobriety. In her quest for inner peace and happiness, she found life’s big question and answer. The question: What ails thee? or… What’s getting in the way of your happiness? The answer is found in the 10 Guiding Principles that Lori found along this journey.
No Mud, No Lotus
10 Guiding Principles for Emotional Sobriety and Inner Freedom
Meet the Author
Lori Baynham, with the guidance of a friend in recovery, “came to realize” over many shared training miles that she was just as much an addict as he was.
Shocked at the realization, but finally aware that by hanging onto past hurts and resentments she had become an emotional hostage to things “out there”, she developed and then began following the 10 guiding principles that got her back on track. You, too, can find the path that puts you in charge of your own happiness.
Join this extraordinary journey to help you unlock whatever emotional baggage is holding you back from the happiness of your heart’s desire.
I am so glad you’re here.
Lori was…
“put together” on the outside but crumbling inside . As she began revealing the details of her kind of addiction with her fellow runner and friend in recovery, she realized that addiction isn’t limited to drugs, alcohol, eating and shopping. Their friendship soared to a whole new level as she began learning how to transcend resentments, the number one contributor to any kind of addiction.
You’ll read the nitty-gritty details of what leads to the emotional addictions of admiration, appeasement, people-pleasing, and many other codependent behaviors that are coping mechanisms to change the way we feel. That’s how addiction works. We want to numb our pain by applying something from the outside to heal our emotional wounds, at least temporarily. But there’s a healthy, happy, permanent solution to kick emotional addiction once and for all!
Join Lori for the emotional sobriety journey leading to true inner peace.
The book release is pending, but you can start this journey now by taking charge of your own happiness – and Lori can help. Get ready for something that is truly life changing.
How emotional sobriety all begins.
When enough desperation summons enough courage, and an addict enters a recovery meeting for the first time, they are often greeted with a half-filled cup of coffee. Half-filled, because unsteady hands, trembling from withdrawal, may experience coffee sloshing over the rim.
The first sip is sometimes a gentle slurp—not out of disregard for manners, but to avoid burning the tongue. That first little slurp marks the beginning of something remarkable: a gateway to healing.
Emotional addiction may not cause a trembling of the hands, but it certainly causes a trembling of the heart. When happiness is tethered to people and things outside oneself, another kind of desperation sets in—one that breeds resentment and loneliness, the common threads in all forms of addiction.
Sometimes the consequences of addiction become so grave that the addict is willing to try anything to change. This is known as the gift of desperation — a powerful catalyst for transformation.
The very irreverent but appropriate slogan “slurp that coffee” honors the extraordinary gift that often begins with a gentle slurp of coffee and a willingness to begin anew.
