Alcohol Freedom Blog

Alcohol recovery is a process that takes time, patience, fortitude and perseverance. Each set back will rip just a little more tenacity from your already shallow reservoir of resolve to beat the illness you are tasked with fighting. Little wonder then that small breakthroughs need to be savored and appreciated. Any disease that requires you to live minute to minute, hour to hour and day to day to survive the initial onslaught of demon compulsions is a tough adversary and so any victory is sweet. Continue Reading »

Edward had always wanted to enter politics at some stage of his life and now seemed like the timing might just be right. He had been a senior partner at his law firm for 5 years now and his political interests had soared during this time. His family was settled with his two children now in university and his wife seemingly content with her hobbies and pastimes. She would make a wonderful politician’s wife, she was photogenic, intelligent and people really liked her. Continue Reading »

When someone drinks excessively and they know it, they are under physiological threat because of the damage alcohol can cause to ones health. Also the nature of drinking too much requires you to make sure you always have sufficient alcohol on hand to feed your addiction. Throw in a mix of family obligations, employment or work issues, maybe even hiding alcohol etc. and you are under quite a bit of stress just to maintain your life with alcohol as its hub.

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What Will Motivate You?

David P.
David P. was an insurance salesman and financial planner and hating every minute of it. He was successful enough but was also bored. He began drinking in college and back then it was almost a sport. When he wasn’t in classes he was partying with friends. He eventually left school, bounced around in different jobs settling on work in the insurance industry.
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Dan was a successful real estate entrepreneur and business Broker. He was married to a wonderful woman who helped him attain the level of achievement he now enjoyed. Dan also had a son who looked up to him and was by all accounts going to be a very good athlete and could look forward to being scouted by some major league sports teams in the near future. Continue Reading »

I just celebrated and toasted my thirteenth year of sobriety and I did it with ice tea! There was a time when any celebration would have meant a few glasses of 12 year old scotch but not anymore! The feeling of gratefulness because of my freedom from alcohol is as powerful 13 years later as it was 4,748 days ago!

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Blatantly pinching a famous opening line, it was the best of times and the worst of times for Brenda and Liz. This sentence brilliantly describes the lives of these two women who shared a problem. These women could not be any more different and probably would ignore each other if they met by accident on the street. Yet they share an eerily similar dark secret; they both are nurturing a growing dependence on alcohol. Continue Reading »

As unconventional as it was, having an intervention for Carol even though she was 30 days sober seemed like the right thing to do. It was obvious to her family she wasn’t taking rehab seriously, at least not doing it for her. Each previous stint in rehab ended with her reacting poorly to her stressors and succumbing to her addiction, leaving her young family and crashing with her siblings. Continue Reading »

Carol was a normal 47 year old woman with a husband, two pre teen kids, a home and job she enjoyed. She was living what by all appearances was a normal life. To everyone but those closest to her she seemed to have an enviable lifestyle. However Carol had a destructive secret that was slowly killing her and destroying everything she had. Carol had developed into a full blown alcoholic. Continue Reading »

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

This Serenity prayer is repeated in church basements and meeting rooms all over the world at A.A. meetings and indeed gives an alcoholic the inner strength to carry on until their next meeting.

What about the family members who are caught on the emotional roller coaster that an alcoholic brings into their lives? THEY are truly the ones that give this prayer meaning. Spouses of an alcoholic are living their own personal hell every day. Many lack the strength, courage and wisdom necessary to make the tough decisions that need to be made to improve their quality of life, the life of the alcoholic they live with and to find that elusive serenity. Continue Reading »