I Am a Recovering Alcoholic Stories of Experiences

Today is day 5 of no drinking. It is the long weekend and usually I would be spending the whole weekend totally obliterated. Today I am sober, today I am not hung over! I am still feeling a little out of sorts with the shakiness and the...

Farmington Hills, Mich. - Recovery homes are supposed to be safe havens for addicts to heal after they get out of rehab.
But instead of helping addicts rebuild their lives, a local sobriety leader is accused by several women of preying...

I stopped drinking when I was almost 50 years old, but not before my first marriage had ended in divorce 20 years ago, with my alcoholism a major contributing factor -- I was a bad drunk, mean, violent, vindictive, and controlling.

My...

I have had a drink in 25+ years. I am grateful every day. I was a maintaining drinker, so I was able to get to AA  with a drivers license and insurance.  I have to thank my wife for the confrontation.

It runs in families.....probably. My mothers brother died of drinking when he was about 35. And the very, very first time l had a serious drink.....(maybe 15 and a half)...l got a feeling of 'INSTANT GRATIFICATION'!.....(people assume...

In fact, having a drink was my automatic response to anything. Happy? have a drink. Angry? have a drink. Tired? have a drink. Feeling down? have a drink, and so on.

But for nine and a half years now, I have had to find other ways to...

This is how I want to help others (and at the same time help myself).

The name of the podcast is The Closure Graveyard

I'd like your help by sharing with me ur closure story, something that has happened that you have let go or are...

Where do people start ? I am a lifelong alcoholic probably starting from my very 1st experience with drink at the age of 15. I am now 57 years old, however, dry now for more than 2 years. When I think more than 2 years I am lost as to...

In my pursuit of further understanding and reduction of suffering I have studied and practiced mindfulness as much as possible on my own over the past year. Mindfulness practice is being employed in Western psychology to alleviate a...

I am now in my 10th year of sobriety and finally my wife is starting to feel comfortable talking about her feelings and experiences while I was drinking.
It is not easy to hear the person you love tell you what a despicable bastard you...

“Do you think you’re sitting over there drinking that alcohol like water because you’re trying to feel more insecure about yourself?” Jimmie turned away from Spoojack and looked down the street. His eyes were filling with...

By Dr. Arthur H. Cain
From the September 19, 1964 Saturday Evening Post.
An expert charges that Alcoholics anonymous has become a dogmatic
cult that blocks medical progress and hampers many members' lives.
It is time we made a thorough...

Children are gifts, if we accept them.
—Kathleen Turner Crilly

Children are gifts. Our children, if we have children, are a gift to us. We, as children, were gifts to our parents.

Sadly, many of us did not receive the message from...

RARELY HAVE they seen a person who has thoroughly followed their path. Those who do recover are usually people who have recognized AA as a dangerous religious cult, and will not give themselves completely to AA's fanatical program. The...

KARLA BRADA MURDER VICTIM BY AA MEMBER   Click on to view the Karla Brada Video Story-  
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I am Monica Richardson, the Founder of a grass roots movement to...

It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us. If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also. But are there no exceptions to this rule? What about...

"(Serenity) It's finding peace within the storm"
That is what it says on the back of my coin from the third time in rehab, oh, so long ago.
Now I have found my peace in the storm.
Through A.A.
Today my poet soul gets to grow, gets to...

Someone not long ago told me that they don't know how to go through the up coming party - wedding season without drinking. How would they dance? How could they have any fun without alcohol to help them?

If you look at the label of...

I Don'T Have To Stop Drinking!

I don't HAVE to stop drinking. The court can't make me. I drank before when ordered not to. There is nothing that would stop me from drinking if I wanted to. I could buy a bottle or go to the refrigerator...

It is bloody hard to resist the temptation to have a stiff whiskey when something really bad happens in your life.

This did happen to me recently and it took all my will-power to stay sober for the few days until my group's next...