Mutual Aid: Working with Others
One of the most interesting aspects of recovery is what support groups often referred to as “service” or, simply, step 12 (the non-secular version reads:
One of the most interesting aspects of recovery is what support groups often referred to as “service” or, simply, step 12 (the non-secular version reads:
I can’t even count the number of times where I’d been surrounded by people and felt as alone as if I was the only person
There is no doubt that addiction and mental health remain the two hot-and-awkward topics which seem to never stay far away from controversy, and related
In honor of the new year, I’d like to share with you a chapter I wrote for the book Do Tell! Stories by Atheists and Agnostics
I am honored that ASRC – Adoption Search Resource Connection – has published my essay Becoming Yourself as an Adoptee. Please read the entire essay here at
So you know somebody who wants to get sober? Great! Unfortunately, getting sober is really complex and every individual is different in how they arrive
Guest Post on AA Agnostica: The Evolution of Identity Excerpt: I used to identify in a very specific way. In the beginning of my recovery
One of the biggest obstacles in the life of a person with substance use disorder is asking for help. Ironic, isn’t it? We are often
“I can’t take this anymore” is a thought that is familiar to many people with substance-use disorder. The “this” can be the obsession itself, life
There’s nothing like the holidays, “the most wonderful time of the year…” This is when most of us prepare for the big family gatherings and
Please see my guest blog post titled “SPIRITUAL? RELIGIOUS? GO FIGURE” at AA Beyond Belief, a Web site dedicated to the following: Our pledge
The pain of rejection and social isolation is real. It’s as real as any other kind of wounding, and just as damaging. Our hearts get broken, our feelings get hurt, we feel emotional pain—we use such terms to describe something that is not visible, not tangible, yet this poetic language describes phenomenon that can be explained scientifically as well.
Today author David B. Bohl, an independent addiction consultant and licensed clinical substance abuse counselor, is here to share his story with us. David and I discuss his experiences of alcohol addiction and sobriety, how our lives as adoptees are so much more than just our adoption experience, and what is working right now in the recovery field.
Parallel Universes: The Story of Rebirth has been recognized on Adoptee Reading’s Twenty Adoptee-Authored Books Published in 2018. 2018 was a big year for adoptee
Getting sober and clean for the first time is probably one of the biggest events in the life of a person with substance-use disorder. For
A recent billboard advertising quitting smoking made me think about what it actually means to quit. Is all quitting created equal? Is there better or
Shame. It’s a monster that has been ever-present in my life from as far as I can remember. Before I had a name for it,
I don’t know if things would’ve turned out differently for me, but I know that it took me a long time and a lot of
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