Using the Serenity Prayer to Build Trust: So much of recovery—whether it’s from a mental health condition or addiction—involves trusting ourselves, believing we can overcome our challenges.

As popular as it is, few people seem to know or even care about the origin and authorship of the Serenity Prayer. It was conceived in a little stone cottage in Heath, Massachusetts, by theologian ...

It’s so easy to get stuck in a pseudo-acceptance that turns passivity into a spiritual virtue, when what we really need to do is take action and change the situation.

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The Serenity Prayer in all of its forms rests on Niebuhr’s hard-won sense of history’s tragic dimension, borne of his experience of two world wars and a global depression.

Jonathan Morris wrote a wonderful book on the Serenity Prayer titled “The Way of Serenity” and claims that the most difficult part of that prayer has to do with “the wisdom to know the ...

Alex brought up the Serenity Prayer, that classic prayer so often used in 12-step groups: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, ...

A sobriety medallion used in an addiction recovery program, imprinted with the Serenity Prayer. Joe van petten/Flickr, CC BY-SA. Niebuhr did not believe that prayers should be copyrighted, she ...