We were created fully human. We were given emotions, desires, hopes, dreams, and feelings. There is an alive, excited, fun loving child in us somewhere! Let it come out! Let it come alive! Let it have some fun

Denial is the psychological process by which alcoholics protect themselves.

Alcoholics Anonymous informally refers to the alcoholic who has stopped drinking, but who still demonstrates the same alcoholic attitudes and behaviors, as a “dry drunk.”

If you can’t fight and you can’t flee, flow. - Robert Eliot
Too often, we men have lived with a single answer to every situation: win. We saw our friendships in competitive terms, so we couldn’t let our guard down. We looked at life as a challenge to be conquered rather than something to [...]

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 [...]

Alcoholism is characterized by a preoccupation with alcohol and impaired control over alcohol intake.
Alcoholism is a chronic, often progressive disease. Left untreated, alcoholism can be fatal.
Pictured; The Drunkenness of Noah by Michelangelo
One may continue to abuse alcohol despite serious adverse health, personal, work-related and financial consequences. Alcoholism usually involves physical dependence on [...]

 
Mindfulness is a form of self-awareness training adapted from Buddhist mindfulness meditation. It has been adapted for use in treatment especially preventing relapse and for assisting with mood regulation.

Mindfulness has been described as a state of being in the present, accepting things for what they are, i.e. non-judgementally. It was originally developed to [...]

 
Styles of Distorted Thinking
Throughout addictive / alcoholic / codependent living one tends to pick up dysfunctional styles of thinking to cope with every day life.
Using them often ends in some sort of confrontation.
These are some that many have noticed. They are born out of anger, anxiety and denial; or just plain [...]

 
“We learned we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics, this is the first step of recovery. The delusion that we are like other people or presently may be has to be smashed.”
This passage came straight out of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous in Chapter 3 [...]

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