With her Unsinkable Molly Brown, Meg wondered, "Where are all the other white middle-class cocaine addicts who turn themselves into Rehab?" There weren't any-just court ordered people were there...so that's why Meg wrote "CONFESSIONS OF A SOUTHERN BABY-BOOMER-How I Survived Crack Cocaine Addiction, the Mafia & Other Totally True Tales." She knew that there were other Baby-Boomers who had this secret too and as AA and NA say, "You're only as sick as your secrets." So that's why Meg Speaks today-to tell her story so others know that you can overcome addiction and come out of the dark. By telling her deepest secret, Meg learned they can't hurt her anymore.
Weasels in the workplace, colleagues in crisis, and bombastic bosses--we all know what it is like to have a "job from hell." We also know that, despite our industriousness and integrity, many of us will someday have to choose between groceries, health care, and heating the apartment. The nuns who taught me in grade school said that all work, regardless of skills or status, was a ministry. By our helpfulness and kindness on the job, we contributed to the common good. Oh, to have those nuns in charge today! Our sense of social responsibility is eroding as the gap between the super-rich and everyone else grows, and as the rhetoric of leaders that is supposed to heal, deepen our humanity, and unite us is mean, shallow, and divisive. What are the spiritual to do in this material world, where social Darwinism and faith in God are joined at the hip? This book is about putting spirituality to work at work. It is about using spirituality to help us be in toxic places and not become toxic. It explores strategies for maintaining our humanity and moral compass, and it illuminates choices, prompts deep personal reflection, and chases demons from cubicles with humor.
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