Recovery Rules
Just a kid on her bike and her dad jogging alongside. “I want to learn how to shoot the basketball better,” she said. “We play…
Author: Rick
Hey Dr. Phil! We are not “Idiots.”
Mentally ill? For most of recorded history the treatment was barbaric. Labeled as witches, we were burned at the stake or weighted down and thrown…
god, meds and recovery
So 12-step recovery suggests I find a God (or god) of my own understanding. That’s a hard enough task for your average alcoholic or addict….
And it begins like this…
I’m taking a whiz in an inappropriate place again. Apparently five plus years of sobriety have done little to suppress “the world is my toilet”…
Hey 13th Steppers! Give it a Rest.
Celia never seemed to put more than a few months together clean. A complete failure at recovery. Not worth the 24-hour, 30-day and occasional 60-day…
Justifiable Anger???
Yes, I know better. But sometimes I make the mistake of watching the news. Though I swore off drinking 11+ years ago, each time I…
Failures into Lessons
My last bipolar manic episode was what my 94-year-old mother would call a “doozey.” (Sure, my Facebook analytics tell me my followers skew Millennial. Perhaps…
Live and Let Live!
Is it “Live and Let Live” or should it be “Love Unconditionally and Let Live?” Anyone who has been to enough 12-step meetings has seen…
The Power of Silence
Once again I was wrong. Once again it was due to my over-inflated belief that my way is the only way. Once again the error…
Self-Help vs. Selfless-Help: The Key to Sobriety
I did it again. Slick ad on Facebook. A play to my reoccurring feeling of brokenness. A catchy title. Click… PayPal… Click. Three days later…