“Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything” – Anthem by Leonard Cohen Often mentioned as an acceptance of imperfection, this sentiment lends itself perfectly to understanding recovery from addiction and learning to accept the past and our imperfections. Childhood Friends the poem by the Sufi Continue Reading
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MORE ABOUT SUCCESS IN RECOVERY
In our recent Success In Recovery post, we featured examples of individual entrepreneurs enjoying success in recovery. While we maintain the real success in recovery is staying sober or drug free, we also believe recovery can be a ‘mirror’ of addiction. We can take assets used to survive addiction and Continue Reading
ALCOHOL FREE
You might not expect to find a piece on Dry January on an addiction recovery site, although you will certainly see it covered across all other traditional and social media. The first “official” campaign seems to have started in 2012 in the UK. Alcohol Concern, a leading UK charity encouraged Continue Reading
Choose Life – Choose Recovery
There are certainly no shortage of depictions of addiction and alcoholism in popular culture, some of it original, much of it clichéd but they sure are there. That might make a good book, if someone hasn’t already written it, let us know if you have. This though is a blog Continue Reading
All About Recovery – How I stopped drinking and recovery started working:
After 30 years of continuous drinking and drug use I got sober. I spent the last of the little money I had on four months of residential treatment. The only reason I took that path was because a dear friend, who had been given 6 months to live (at the Continue Reading