a thousand pasts and no future
“Choose [your memories] carefully. Memories are all we end up with … You’ll have a thousand pasts and no future.” –The Secret Behind Their Eyes (film) forget about the sunshine by whatmegsaid A friend...
View ArticleAnonymity Hurts More Than It Helps???
This video came to my attention through this op-ed. I like the video and agree that making recovery more visible is important in reducing stigma. Last year I wrote: Am I the only one who is really...
View ArticleDavid Foster Wallace: Life, Writing, Addiction, and Recovery
David Foster Wallace (Photo credit: Steve Rhodes) An interesting interview with DFW’s biographer about his recovery. Check it out. On the influence of 12 step recovery on his life and writing: I think...
View ArticleThe adoption of 12-step practices and beliefs.
Evidence by billaday We’re seeing a growing body of research on the mechanisms of change in 12 step recovery. Tonigan and Greenfield recently published an article in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors....
View ArticleTribes of the recovering community
Yoga Class at a Gym Category:Gyms_and_Health_Clubs (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Yoga of 12-Step Recovery (Y12SR) thinks of itself as an adjunct to 12 step recovery. Founded in 2012, The Y12SR Foundation...
View ArticleKnowing laughter
In The Gifts of Imperfection, Brene Brown describes “knowing laughter” In I Thought It Was Just Me, I refer to the kind of laughter that helps us heal as knowing laughter. Laughter is a spiritual form...
View ArticleTribes of the recovering community
This week’s tribe is the Calix Society. Calix is an association of Catholic alcoholics who are maintaining their sobriety through affiliation with and participation in the Fellowship of Alcoholics...
View ArticlePrecovery
Bill White introduces a new concept, precovery: Precovery involves several simultaneous processes: physical depletion of the drug’s once esteemed value, cognitive disillusionment with the using...
View ArticleLearning Non-Reaction in Recovery
Make Me Laugh (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Anna David shares her 10th step work with us. One of my favorite things in recovery is that way many people with solid recovery share their 10th step stuff with...
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