Dec 07 2007
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!
Nov 21 2007
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 »
Nov 16 2007
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 »
Oct 26 2007
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 »
Aug 19 2007
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 »
Aug 10 2007
Asking for help is difficult for anyone in the best of times but when you are suffering the effects of alcohol withdrawal and you’ve made promises to concerned family it can be heart wrenching. You already suffer from an active mind and this only makes it worse. This is one of those times when a drink would help you get rid of that edge. You need to think clearly and it just isn’t happening for you. Continue Reading »
