At the end of my using and drinking, in the terminal phase, I was very much inclined toward isolation. I didn’t feel connected to the people in my life, the few that remained. I didn’t feel like I could open up […]

The life I led as an addict was not easy, nor was it enjoyable. Were there good times? Sure, but the bad outweighed them, and by a lot. I need to remember that, and to remember how much it really hurt there at the […]

While reading through a meeting the other day, someone’s share about hitting rock bottom piqued my interest. They had accepted it and they were grateful for it, happy to have finally ceased making the problem […]

“Resentment is the number one offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else.” (Big Book, pg. 64)
I sometimes resent my resentments. I know what they are, I know that they’re mostly irrational, and I […]

I don’t think I’ve mentioned my best friend in this blog before.

I’m sure you don’t know her. She doesn’t speak much English and doesn’t have any troubling addictions. She isn’t in recovery as we are, she […]