Perhaps you have wondered from time to time if your drinking is out of hand. Maybe a loved one or friend has expressed concern about your drinking. Have you compared your drinking with someone else’s that you perceive is much worse than you, and made a pact with yourself to quit if you ever [...]

First three steps of AA
define the problem,
solution In 1934, Bill W.,
cofounder of Alcoholics
Anonymous, got a call from
a former drinking buddy,
Ebby T. “Rumor had it that
he’;d been committed for
alcoholic insanity,” Bill
recalled. “I wondered how
he had escaped.” In
reality, Ebby was two
months sober. This
disappointed Bill, who
wanted to recapture the
spirit of their earlier
drinking escapades. When
Ebby came to visit, Bill
pushed a drink across the
table. Ebby refused it.
“The door opened, and he
stood there, fresh-skinned
and glowing,” Bill recalled.
“He was inexplicably
different. What

Twelve Step fellowships such as Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Al-anon, Cocaine Anonymous and others don’t just address the substance or overt behaviour. In progressing through the 12 Steps other benefits will be realized. These are know as the rewards of recovery. One example is;
THE TWELVE REWARDS OF SOBRIETY
By Searcy W., 55 years sober as at [...]

Side Effects Imperil Addiction Drugs
Reports of increased risk of depression and suicide are dimming the future prospects of drugs designed to treat addictions to alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, the Associated Press reported.
Development of anti-addiction drugs has gained increased attention from pharmaceutical companies in recent years, but problems associated with drugs [...]

Basics: The basic daily practices for a spiritual life are prayer and meditation.
When
Daily: Prayer works best on our mind and body when it’s cumulative. Daily prayer is a good idea.
At Days Beginning: We begin first thing in the morning. We ask “a Power greater than ourselves” to direct our thinking during the day ahead. Especially [...]

 
Alcoholics Anonymous Founder’s House Is a Self-Help Landmark
By LISA W. FODERARO, Published: July 6, 2007
BEDFORD HILLS, N.Y., July 3 — The house tour was nearing an end in this Westchester County hamlet, in a region known for its historic sites, from pre-Revolutionary grist mills to Gilded Age mansions. But as the visitors entered the austere [...]

Man’;s Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl On
Choosing One’;s Attitude
“Everything can be taken
from a man but …the last
of the human freedoms - to
choose one’;s attitude in
any given set of
circumstances, to choose
one’;s own way.” p.104
“There is also purpose in
life which is almost barren
of both creation and
enjoyment and which
admits of but one
possibility of high moral
behavior: namely, in man’;s
attitude to his existence,
an existence restricted by
external forces.” p.106 On
Committing to Values and
Goals
“Logotherapy…considers
man as a being whose main
concern consists in fulfilling
a meaning

The Famous Letter From Carl Jung To Bill Wilson, Co-Founder Of Alcoholics Anonymous
The thing that I find amazing about this letter from Carl Jung (pictured) to Bill Wilson concerning spirituality and alcoholism, is that Bill Wilson was nearing the end of his life and felt a need to express to Carl Jung how [...]

The “Good-Enough Sex” model for couple sexual satisfaction

Then we have the voices who cry for sex and more sex; who bewail the institution of marriage; who think that most of the troubles of the race are traceable to sex causes. They think we do not have enough of it, or that it isn’t the [...]

There is a long-recognized association between alcohol consumption and aggressive behavior. But does aggression and hostility continue into sobriety?
This study was designed to examine aggression in a group of socially well-adapted recovered alcoholics.
The question addressed was whether the treatment, together with long-term abstinence from alcohol, could reduce aggression and hostility in recovered alcoholics.
Sixty [...]