Celebrate Sobriety This Holiday Season!
Estimated Read Time: 7 min
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Don’t Wash Away Your Sober Thanksgiving
Estimated Read Time: 6 min
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Always Be Grateful for the Gift of Service
Estimated Read Time: 11 min
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Lifestyles of the Poor and Fame Adjacent
Estimated read time: 10 min
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Searching for Help in the Self-Checkout Line
Estimated read time: 11min
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How to Handle Anxiety in Early Recovery
Estimated Read Time: 10 min
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What Are You Waiting For? Recover Now!
Estimated Read Time: 6 min
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Finding Serenity Surrounded by Icebergs
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The Grateful Nuts are Greenland Bound!
Estimated Read Time: 4 min
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Refreshing a Stale Recovery is Simple
Estimated Read Time: 12 min
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Don’t Get Lost Searching for Higher Powers
Estimated Read Time: 9 min
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How to Find Unexpected Recovery Treasure
Estimated Read Time: 9 min
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A Nutty Year, but I’m Grateful!
Estimated read time: 9 min
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Important Boundaries for Helping Others
Estimated Read Time: 9 min
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How to Prune Character Defects
Estimated Read Time: 9 min
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How to Change the Things I Can
Estimated Read Time: 8 min
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When is the Right Time for Treatment?
Estimated Read Time: 10 min
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Being ‘Outed’ in Recovery is No Big Deal
Estimated Read TIme: 12 min
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Making Amends One Day at a Time
Estimated Read Time: 7 min
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The Ugly Duckling Stage of Sobriety
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Make a Lost Drinking Spot Your Sober Vacation
Estimated Read Time: 7 min
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No Reservations Needed in Sobriety
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Keeping it Green is Not Always Helpful
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Should We Be Counting Days in Sobriety?
Estimated read time: 11 min
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10 Tips for Your First 90 Days
Estimated read time: 14 min
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Don’t Skip the Porch Meetings!
Estimated read time: 10 min
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Was it an Accident, Slip or a Relapse?
Estimated Read Time: 13 min
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Solutions to Life’s Problems Are Not in a Bottle
Estimated read time: 13 min
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Don’t Give Up! Fight to Stay Sober!
Estimated read time: 10 min
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There is No Place Like Rehab for the Holidays
Estimated read time: 12 min
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The 12 Tips at Christmas to Save Sobriety
Estimated read time: 11 min
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Mocktails? No Thanks, I’m Sober.
Estimated read time: 12 min
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Using Dreams in Early Sobriety
Estimated read time: 11 min
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Three Words Not in My Vocabulary: I Need Help
Estimated read time: 12 minutes In many ways, I am a typical male. Like most of us, I have been raised to follow some strange code that tends to make life a little more difficult for people around me, most often Nina, my kind, loving wife, and, at times, myself. One of part of this
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Which Came First The Chicken or the Egg?
Estimated read time: 12 min Which came first the mental health diagnosis or the substance abuse? When I was about 20 years old, I had my first brief encounter with a mental health therapist. To this day, I don’t remember what credentials the woman had. At the time, I didn’t think much of the one
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Dodging the Bulleit of Insanity
Estimated read time: 7 min “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” —Anonymous Al-Anon member. I have heard that quote numerous times since my first days in recovery and perhaps before then. It is often mistakenly attributed to Albert Einstein, and I often, mistakenly, try
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Don’t Fear the “G” Word
Estimated read time: 12 min One of the most obvious things about living in South Georgia is the inundation of churches. There is literarily a church on every corner. I mean good god, (pun intended) there are big churches in even the smallest towns. There are churches in strip malls. There are cathedrals in larger
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It’s Not About The Money
Estimated read time: 11 min While I was sitting in a treatment center, three days out of medical detox, I first began to formulate an idea of what my life in sobriety could be like. I knew it would be boring. No more hanging out with friends while having a drink. No more rock concerts
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Sponsorship: It’s Kind of A Big Deal
Estimate read time: 8 min “You get drunk, yet?” Every phone call I made to my sponsor started off with that question. He never said hello, just picked up and said, “You get drunk, yet?” I often wondered if he answered all of his calls that way and how many doctors’ offices, business associates and
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What If I’m NOT An Alcoholic?
Estimated read time: 9 min After being medically detoxed so that I could safely live without needing to drink, spending more than 40 days in a treatment center learning about my disease, and spending more than three months attending two AA meetings per day, I suddenly had a thought that crept to the back of
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Don’t Get Fried At A Cookout
Estimated read time: 14 min Those who have survived early sobriety often warn newcomers of certain situations that could lead to relapse. The main one being taking one drink or trying just a small hit of a drug. There are several other situations that I personally was reminded might make my recovery more difficult. I
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Getting R.I.D. of Special Treatment
Estimated read time: 10 min I have been sober for a little bit. I took my last drink and drug more than 7 years ago, and some days I like to think it means something. I have long been over my obsession that a drink will do anything positive in my life, and for the
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What “Earth People” Say, Might Kill You
Estimated read time: 9 min When I found out that I was really, truly a sort of garden-variety alcoholic, I began to gravitate toward people like me, and those in long-term recovery. I naturally wanted to be around people who understood what it was like to be me, and I wanted to let everyone in
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Chemical Free ≠ Not Sober
When I was in ninth grade, we were required to take a driving safety course taught by a state patrolman. The course had only one topic: the dangers of drinking and driving. I am sure that other students learned to avoid the possibility of killing themselves or others by listening to the facts and fear
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Living With A Grateful Heart
Estimated read time: 7 min I have heard and said I’m grateful for the people in my life and the things that I have. But I started thinking (usually, a scary prospect for me), how would anyone know I am grateful? What about me and how I go through my day shows that I am
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What If I Am An Alcoholic?
Estimated read time: 8 min As my wife and other alcoholics who are waaaaaayyyyy smarter than me often say, “If you ask that question, then you probably know the answer.” Still, if you are like me and stayed in denial through 28 years of hard drinking, always hoping that somehow the joy from the first
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