Category: Addiction
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Why Can’t You Drink? Misunderstanding Alcoholism and Addiction
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What’s a question you hate to be asked? Why can’t you drink? Why can’t you control your drinking? A short post about misunderstanding alcoholism and addiction.
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Failure Is A Key To Success
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Success is how well you’ve done with the potential within yourself. The potential for love, for honesty, for self-awareness, for growth, for forgiveness. Success is how well you’ve polished your soul and only failure and heartache can make you aware that it even needs cleaned.
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Going All-In For Recovery
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One of the most detrimental things an addict / alcoholic can do to hinder their recovery is to believe the world’s view that their problem is an external one – that if only they’d quit drinking or drugging they’d be restored, good as new. This couldn’t be further from the truth. The belief that alcohol /…
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I Am Not A Victim – The Courage to Change
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The hardest thing about fighting back against any mental illness, addiction, mental limitations, or physical limitations is that there is not a direct enemy that you can see, that you rebel and fight against. I read “Unbroken” by Lauren Hillenbrand a few weeks ago and was inspired by the story. But it wasn’t the time Louis…
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Staying Sober During the Holidays
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With the holidays coming up, I thought I might offer some suggestions on how to make it through without drinking or using – at least the things that I will be doing to keep myself focused. For whatever the reason, I think Christmas is always the hardest holiday to stay sober. Many of us are…
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Accepting the Invitation of Sobriety
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Often times, the chains that are holding us back from moving forward are not fears or worries about the future, but fears of letting go of the past. We may not like the person we are and where we’ve been, but we’re comfortable with that person – we recognize their face in the mirror. Sobriety actually…
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The War on Addiction
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Breaking any addiction is hard work. There’s always a period when your body and mind fight back, and you doubt your reasoning for quitting in the first place. I think this is where most people fail. They convince themselves they don’t actually want to quit and go back to the safety of their addiction, listening…
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A.A. Step 2 – The Hope for Recovery
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There’s no point in addressing a problem if you don’t have a solution. But before you even dive into the solution, there’s a force that drives you there- hope. Hope is the fuel to the fire of recovery. The second you lose hope, the solution doesn’t matter anymore because “it’ll never work for me”, “I…
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Step 1 – Embracing Our Powerlessness
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“1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol- that our lives had become unmanageable.” (Alcoholics Anonymous) When many of us come to the first step in Alcoholics Anonymous, we seem ready and eager to accept it without too much thought. Of course I’m ready to quit, I wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t. Unmanageable…my life is…
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Sobriety – The Promise Of A New Dawn
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When I first got sober, I had many misconceptions about what sobriety meant. I told myself that once I got sober I would be happy, life would get easier, my problems would get better, etc. In a nutshell, I thought that when I quit drinking I would be a completely different person and could start…
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Just For Today
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Sometimes recovery is one day at a time. Sometimes it’s one hour at a time. And sometimes, in the darkest depths of addiction, it’s one minute at a time. Most people have heard the phrase “one day at at a time” before, but few actually incorporate it into their daily lives, shrugging it off…
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What Harry Potter Can Teach Us About Addiction
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For the past three weeks, my mind and I have been at each other’s throats, and I’m quite sure I’m going to have to fucking kill it before it’s all said and done…Three weeks ago I quit my love affair with nicotine, and it’s been one hell of a ride. Not only do you feel…
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How Do You Know If You’re An Alcoholic?
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An in-depth post from a recovering alcoholic on the signs and symptoms of alcoholism, a note for loved ones, and about recovery.
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