Financial Planning: Building Your First Budget! For many men and women who are recently in recovery or finishing treatment, financial concerns can be high. Stresses from debt, or large bills can cause anxiety which leads down a path of negativity.…
Evidence-based peer-reviewed scientific articles have long established the fact that respiratory viruses, including coronavirus, infect worried and otherwise stressed people more than their more accepting, grateful, and serene counterparts. How did early scientific studies show that stress increases the “risk…
Recovery? There’s an app for that. Recovery apps can help, especially in early recovery. Some are free, some cost a few bucks, others are free as long as you watch periodic ads, and only some of them are helpful. I’ve…
AA, or Alcoholic's Anonymous, is a very popular program of recovery. AA is a 12-step program, meaning you follow or "work" the 12-steps of Alcoholic's Anonymous upon entrance into the program. The 12-steps are your guide to recovering from alcoholism.…
‘Those times when you get up early and you work hard, those times when you stay up late and you work hard, those times when you don't feel like working, you're too tired, you don't want to push yourself, but…
Your anonymity is a personal choice. Someone else’s anonymity is not your choice. You have absolutely no right to “out” someone else’s sobriety, clean time, recovery or whatever you want to call it. You have no right to claim they…
What you Learn your First Year Sober Getting sober comes with a whole new system of rules and etiquette in the recovery world. More over, what you will learn about yourself will top anything you could have ever hoped for.…
First, I should tell you that I’m a lifelong atheist and I am 10 years sober with the help of a 12-step fellowship. (notice I’m not saying I’m a member or representative of any single fellowship or group in that…
From my experience in recovery, especially early recovery, holidays can be like walking through a mine field. IEDs everywhere: flame throwers, snipers, relatives throwing grenades. People can tell you a hundred different ways, tips, tricks, but what worked for me…
Recovery groups provide what all human beings need—and what chemically dependent people need more than anyone: recognition by others of their humanness, affirmation of their value as human beings, and validation of their feelings. Actor Tony Curtis was quoted in…