One of the best ways to help yourself and support your healing is to help other people. Doing good for others fills your day with good feelings of gratefulness from people you helped, takes your mind off your own problems, [...]
Alcoholism and addiction are sustained through denial, or a lack of awareness of how severe your problem is. You may have at some time realized that your behavior felt “out of control,” and so tried to “cut back,” but for [...]
A cliché is an expression that, although it may expresses great wisdom, starts to feel tired or cheapened by overuse. Among people journeying into recovery, you may encounter many clichéd expressions, things it seems like everybody says. While you may [...]
Holidays are a time when our normal lives stop, and we pay more attention to celebrating and enjoying life, being with family and friends and taking part in special religious observances. The winter holidays in particular can be a wonderful [...]
Addiction claims the lives of a wide variety of people. No career, socioeconomic level, ethnicity, or background is immune. In the throws of addiction, you may feel alone, but there are millions of people who have walked down the same [...]