Releasing what was never mine to control; Embracing what is mine to enjoy.
Changing Our Attitudes about the Drunk Will Help! If you love a drunk – a spouse, a friend, a child, or a parent, may I offer some suggestions and encouragement? Maybe your loved one will find recovery when you learn
How to do something about the addict we love is our personal choice for our personal recovery — no matter if the addict is interested. So, Learn about the Disease Take Care of Your Symptoms and Offer the Hope that
Keeping on in the New Year is an antidote worth considering: While I’m working to stay sober, I’m celebrating albeit with tears. It’s been a mixed emotional bag for me, this holiday season; perhaps for you, too. A friend chose
A Challenge Someone challenged me recently, saying they had heard that the Twelve Step program, AA, is not so helpful. On one level, they are right. Some people who come into the rooms of Al-Anon and AA fail to find recovery, and go
Simple Questions for Complex Persons Do you always answer your doctor’s questions honestly? I didn’t. And I am not sure how honest I would have been, had any doc asked me these questions when I drank. Here are some questions physicians
Celebrating Celebrating forty-one years with friends at a meeting today — after a two -year hiatus — was just about super. What to say about living forty-one years sober? A close relative gave me a segue. When I told her
How are you at hitting curve balls? (metaphorical or real) That was the topic for at a recent anniversary. The speaker described a serious bout with a mean kind of cancer several years into their recovery. And they did not
Thanksgiving 2021 T-Day is in the history books . . . ours was a quiet day—but good Break out the crayons and color me grateful and sober. Color me mindful, too of many alcoholics who are struggling in the isolation
The Last In-Person Meeting I attended my first in-person meeting since February 21, 2020. Someone there made a serendipitous observation, given all that soon happened. I can’t think my way through trouble; I have to live through trouble and learn to