Recovery should be your number-one priority. Period. When you’re a person with substance-use disorder, you must spend the rest of your life fighting not to
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Unlike any addiction memoir you’ve read before, Parallel Universes: The Story of Rebirth, examines identity and what it means to be an adopted secularist in
There’s a popular belief in the self-help world (and beyond) that in order to be happy we need to FIND OURSELVES. I don’t know how
What happens when you discover everything you thought you knew was a lie? Read one man’s grueling search for identity ,truth, and reality in
It’s the New Year, and with it comes new resolutions. We love starting afresh, and January is famously the month when gym memberships skyrocket, when
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.
