I was fascinated to read this article in The Guardian. One of the most common themes I’ve encountered with people seeking recovery who have an interest in the creative spheres, or who make their living through creativity, is the fear of creating without using – or rather if they will Continue Reading
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SAY SOBER, STAY SOBER – STIGMA FREE
This excellent, uplifting article by Maggie Doherty in The Guardian raises some fascinating areas for debate, study and I would even venture – research. The two things that jumped out at me concerned “stigma”, and non-alcoholic drinks. I touched on some thoughts about the stigma surrounding alcoholism in previous posts, Continue Reading
FREEDOM IS THE MAIN(E) THING!
I had not come across Erin French until a friend sent me a link to a BBC World Service programme from their Outlook strand. I can’t recommend it enough, just click here A decade ago Erin French’s life was in tatters. She was in rehab having lost her restaurant, Continue Reading
IT MIGHT NOT BE “THE THING” BUT IT IS A THING
This article by John Crace appeared in The Guardian UK edition on Monday 27th of December. Whilst by no means a completist site, I don’t try to catch everything to do with addiction and recovery posted everywhere, I do try to collect and archive messages that mean something to me Continue Reading
SECOND LIFE
Recently we were talking with a friend, a writer, busy on a number of projects. Charlie Harrow knows his stuff, in between his writing projects he had started developing reflective pieces on his experience with alcohol, alcoholism, recovery and more. He kindly passed these on and so will contribute to Continue Reading
DIGITAL “DIET” – Courses
As promised in a previous post on diet and supplements we are going to look at “digital diet” and online content that supports recovery and change in a number of posts throughout 2020. In Recovery terms I believe our digital “diet”, device use and engagement with screens can be hugely Continue Reading
RECOVERY ESSENTIALS – FOOD MATTERS!
Ever seeking the “edge” in early recovery a decade ago I took a real interest in both physical diet and digital “diet” (more of that later in 2020). I tracked down a couple of books about eating healthily, something I had not done whilst drinking and using. The best of Continue Reading
Should I say (or should you know?)
It seems the biggest obstacle to stopping drinking (or using drugs) is still based in shame and stigma. Broadly the shame appears to be along the line of thinking that suggests if we have a problem we should be able to solve it ourselves, so if we can’t we try Continue Reading
TO SOBRIETY AND BEYOND
As the (No)Buzz Lightyear”s that are the heroes of Dry January consider their missions into to sobriety and beyond (Parched March anyone?), we thought we would highlight some relatively new approaches in the recovery universe. The 12 Step fellowships work for a lot of people. They will continue working for Continue Reading
SOBER AND SUCCESSFUL
What is “successful” anyway? The long time sober and successful writer James Lee Burke puts some words into character Dave Robicheaux’s mouth,”there is no possession more valuable than a sober sunrise”, and that is a pretty good mark of “success” to start from. Plenty of addicts and alcoholics achieve success Continue Reading