Surrender to Your Addiction
When most people find out they have a life threatening disease the first reaction is almost always “we are going to fight this thing and...
10 Things To-Do to Stop Enabling
If you are in recovery, or have a family member in recovery than this will make sense. Unfortunately, most of us learned the hard way and...
Top 5 Reasons Addicts Relapse
Insanity: repeating the same behavior over and over EXPECTING a different result” (C’mon, you know what the results will be). Back in...
Tips for Job Hunting in Early Recovery
Going to a job interview can be daunting in the best of circumstances. Now that you’re in recovery from addiction, you may bring a whole...
Last Call
Since alcohol awareness month is coming, I'd thought I would get an early start. I thought it would be appropriate to write about the...
3 Simple Keys to be Resilient
Everyone knows someone who’s been through a unimaginable experience, yet somehow manages to keep smiling. People like that usually come...
AL-ANON: The Oxygen Mask Goes on You First!
Most of us have traveled enough on airplanes to be able to recite the safety instructions. You know " should the airplane cabin lose...
12 Rules for Being Human
1. You will receive a body – you may like it, or you may hate it. Regardless, it will be yours for your entire life. 2. You will learn...
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
About a year and half ago I was at a dinner party and the couple across the table were updating the gathering about friends from days...
Do I Have to Hit Bottom?
Working in treatment many people ask me if they can avoid losing everything before they get clean. My response is simple: I lost more...
