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 […] Read More
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Struggling with Ill-Suited Recovery Concepts? Learn these important, relevant recovery philosophies, and start healing today! #addictionrecovery #addictionmedicine #addictionpsychiatry #addiction #alcoholism #mindfulness #substanceusedisorders #psychotherapy #interventions #angst #connection […] Read More
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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More
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: […] Read More
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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More
“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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More
Please see my guest blog post titled “SPIRITUAL? RELIGIOUS? GO FIGURE” at AA Beyond Belief, a Web site dedicated to the following: Our pledge […] Read More
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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More