I feel so blessed and relieved that when I walk by a case display like this, my brain says “yuck!” While I was never really a beer drinker, wine was my preferred poison, and I also feel “yuck” when I pass wine / liquor stores. It’s hard to travel around cities like New York City, […]
Eventually, it does all fall apart. Realizing it is the first challenge one must blast through. 💥 REFERENCE The 12 Steps The 12 Traditions I recommend this app if you are interested in learning more about the 12 steps, the history of AA and the 12 traditions. Step #1 “We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, […]
While a narcissist can be an alcoholic, the alcoholic is not necessarily a narcissist, but rather displays narcissistic behavior to protect himself from the roadblocks in the way of satisfying one’s addiction. Despite every best effort to try to understand , those that are not alcoholics can never understand the internal changes that we experience. […]
REFERENCE The 12 Steps The 12 Traditions I recommend this app if you are interested in learning more about the 12 steps, the history of AA and the 12 traditions. The 12 Steps 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a Power […]
What? Are you crazy? Is not AA for a bunch of losers? Nope! REFERENCE The 12 Steps The 12 Traditions I recommend this app if you are interested in learning more about the 12 steps, the history of AA and the 12 traditions. I find AA meetings, incredibly helpful and fascinating because it seems that the “Big […]
The alcoholic lacks self-awareness while imbibing and the disease often comes with anger at oneself which relates results in depression, and the expression of ones suffering on others, which is known as projection. Projection is awful, because you dump your problems onto to others, and make them feel terrible often without even realizing what you […]
Since I have known my wife, I have been in awe of her ability to focus on self-care and part of that for her was journaling in the morning. I refused to do journaling, and have discovered that it was because I was afraid to face the true feelings that I had, and face the […]
intensive outpatient therapy the most important follow onto AA is to rehab is AA or NA, depending on your poison and attending attending an intensive outpatient therapy program. I feel like the intensive outpatient program is reinforcing of material that we learned at rehab, but that reinforcement is critical to an ongoing recovery. I learned […]
I was so proud of one of my fellow rehab attendees. Well, I was proud of ALL of them for their approaches to recovering from their unique struggles. At every meeting, before each of us speaks, we say our name, and that we are an “addict” or “alcoholic,” or both. A new guy showed up […]
I apparently have lived a sheltered and naïve life in many aspects, and we have all heard that fentanyl can be deadly, if ingesting, the equivalent of a grain of sand or two. However, I learned from one of the gentleman with whom my form does strong bond at rehab. That heroin doesn’t actually exist […]