Category Archives: Recovery

Joanie Simon

A Year of ‘No’

36 TV segments, 122 YouTube episodes, countless recipes, photoshoots, and a secret-something-I’m-contractually-unable-to-discuss-at-this-time-but-is-AWESOME all happened in 2016.  It was full of mountain-top experiences, seeing dreams coming into closer vision (the kitchen should be done in the next 6 weeks!), late nights, even later nights, early mornings, coffee, happy tears, sad tears, heart-racing adventures and a heaping tablespoon of

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A Studio Kitchen

A week and a half ago, I landed another new client.  In the world of entrepreneurship, new clients are a blessing and a challenge.  The blessing is, of course, more income.  The challenge is being able to deliver more product.  In my case, the product is photo and/or video work and my creativity and time.  This

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Self-Employed

I have been self-employed one year as of today.  Woot woot! May 1, 2015 kicked off what my therapist called “May Play,” a whole month devoted to all play and no work. April 30th was my last day at the “day job” and I was planning to pursue some form of self-employment (though what I would

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1 Year Sober-versary

I have spent the past few days retracing the steps that led to making March 23, 2015 the day I stepped out of addiction and into recovery. There had been plenty of mornings prior, filled with regret, swearing, “I’ll never drink again.” But, those momentary secret declarations preceded predictable backsliding, where I’d find myself stashing yet

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