Two Wolves
This is one of my favourites! An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, worry, …∞
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Jill C’s Recovery Story
This is my Recovery Story, I Found My True Self I grew up in a middle-class family in Australia. We had a three-story home with an indoor swimming pool and I had a pony. But home was not as it looked from the outside. Not How It Looked My family looked very successful, but my …∞
Posted in Al-anon, Alcohol, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, Codependency, Disease, Family, Women and tagged Australia, baffling, cunning, disease of alcoholism, powerful. Use this permalink for a bookmark.
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Self-Will Run Riot
Self-Will Run Riot: This phrase comes from chapter 5 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, “Selfishness- self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles…. So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though …∞
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Cooking up Recovery
In the Sober Kitchen by Liz Scott So, what exactly do we mean by a “sober kitchen?” Although it means much more than merely removing alcohol containing ingredients from our cupboards and fridge, striving for an alcohol-free kitchen is definitely a good place to start. Why is this important? Because contrary to the old wives’ …∞
Posted in Addictions, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Codependency, Drugs, Family, Food, Fun, Healthy, Relapse, Sexuality, Sobriety and tagged abstinence, cooking, Healthy, kitchen. Use this permalink for a bookmark.
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Women’s Painful Sexual Intercourse
Women in recovery from codependency, alcoholism or addiction may have experienced or be experiencing painful sexual intercourse. This article may help identify the problem. Sex is supposed to be enjoyable, but for countless women suffering from vulvodynia, that’s not the case. Characterized by; pain or discomfort with sexual intercourse, rawness, stinging, itching and burning in …∞
Posted in Addictions, Alcoholism, Codependency, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Relationships, Sexuality, Women, Youth and tagged bacterial, pain, sexual intercourse, stinging, vulvodynia, yeast. Use this permalink for a bookmark.
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Help an Alcoholic 10
This is a bit like the picture at left – can you see other faces in the flowers and the disease of alcoholism? Understand the nature of the chemical alcohol, how alcohol affects the alcoholic and the non-alcoholic in different ways, and why the alcoholic continues to drink when drinking is obviously harming them. Learn …∞
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Alcoholic & Co-dependent Roles
Alcoholic & Co-dependent Roles There are several roles that alcoholics/addicts and their partners adopt with each other. Some of these are; Controller – Person who cannot allow anyone to grow or be anything other than what they want them to be Dual Personality – Person who can change “hats” at the drop of a dime, …∞
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