I Am a Recovering Alcoholic

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...

What if we saw addiction more like we see cancer? Both deadly diseases, they are worlds apart in how they are perceived.
It would sound heartless to tell a cancer patient to "get over it," yet alcoholics and addicts are judged harshly...

I recently decided that, after twenty years of heavy, almost daily drinking, and an incident that nearly cost me everything, I needed to quit my unhealthy ways and get sober for the first time in my entire adult life.  Though I had...

I feel a lot better now.  I've quit drinking before (2 1/2 years) so I know I can't get too confident.  It is nice though to not be blowing all my money on alcohol and to never wake up hung-over or black out and not remember...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

I had just returned to the apartment complex from an early morning errand today when another resident I'd never seen before approached me and, in a near mania that I didn't understand then but would shortly, begged me for a ride across...

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...

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...

And now I'm going on five months clean and somewhat sober.

It took a move from one end of the world to another. A traumatic event times two. And two months of soul searching to get me to where I am now and I've still a long way to go...

This is in fact an exact copy of an answer I put in someone else's topic, but I felt it 'good' enough to be posted as a separate entry... 
First a joke:
You know what they call an alcoholic who ran out of booze?
A man with a...

"(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...

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.

My name is PrincessMaine and as of August 28, 2010, I had 6 years of sobriety with the fellowship and support of Alcoholics Anonymous...
When I open up at any given commitment meeting and stand up at the podium, I usually give the same...

Having gone through myself the devastation that the alchohol illness can cause, I find it horrible when i hear people blaming the person themselves for the pain that they cause while they are drinking. Yes it is ultimately down to the...