by Nancy McKay | May 10, 2020 | Emotions, Empowerment, Fear, Feelings, Insight, inspiration, Living Authentically, Recovery
Do You Want to Feel Better? “Never, never, never give up.” – Winston Churchill I wanted to feel better, do better, show up fully in my life… Long before I got sober, I knew that I was drinking too much. I vividly remember sitting on the patio one afternoon drinking...
by Nancy McKay | Apr 26, 2020 | Challenges, Dreams, Empowerment, Fear, Gratitude, Hope, inspiration, Living Authentically, Recovery, Surviving Cancer
How Different Could Life Be Without Drinking? How Different Could Your Life Be Without Drinking? That’s a tough but necessary question… I couldn’t even imagine how my life would be different without drinking. I know that it scared me. And one of...
by Nancy McKay | Apr 19, 2020 | Courage, Emotions, Empowerment, Fear, Insight, inspiration, Living Authentically, Recovery, Self-compassion, Values
Are You Too Embarrassed to Ask for Help? Are you too embarrassed to ask for help? I was! I’m going to give you something today that will help you get out of embarrassment and into relief. First of all, quitting drinking was the BEST DECISION I’VE EVER MADE!! For...
by Nancy McKay | Apr 12, 2020 | Challenges, Empowerment, Fear, Feelings, Insight, inspiration, Recovery, Self-compassion
What’s Everyone Going to Think? Do you worry about what other people will think of you? Does that impact your actions? It did for me! On one hand, I didn’t want to alienate my drinking “buddies”, so I didn’t want to admit I...
by Nancy McKay | Mar 22, 2020 | Challenges, Courage, Emotions, Empowerment, Fear, Feelings, Hope, Hopelessness, inspiration, Recovery
That Hopeless Feeling “If you’re going through Hell, keep going” ~ Winston Churchill Are you feeling hopeless? Not that we aren’t being giving an extreme reason right now, what with the COVID-19 and all, I suspect everyone has a smidgen of, at least...
by Nancy McKay | Feb 16, 2020 | Challenges, Courage, Dreams, Empowerment, Fear, Feelings, Forgiveness, Insight, inspiration, Living Authentically, Recovery, Self-compassion
“Horses change lives. They give our young people confidence and self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls – they give us hope!” ~ Toni Robinson You’ll discover yourself, because horses just don’t lie Horses always respond positively...