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Join Us in Discussing Dry by Augusten Burroughs
I’m excited to be starting my 10th year sober by hosting a discussion of Augusten Burroughs’s book Dry. Addiction/recovery autobiographies like Dry were crucial to my staying sober in my first few months alcohol-free. It wasn’t the instructional self-help books that helped me the most in those early months, it was the autobiographies. For the…
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Join Us in Discussing The Biology of Desire by Marc Lewis
When I read Marc Lewis’s book The Biology of Desire in 2015, I recognized my own story of recovery from addiction. in his words. “The facility for viewing one’s life as a narrative may be what’s missing in addiction… Addicts experience something breathtaking when they can stretch their vision of themselves from the immediate present…
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A New Perspective on Alcohol Use and Abuse
The shame is built into the conversation about this “disease of alcoholism” in our culture. We need to take a fresh look at alcoholism, alcohol use disorder, addiction, and recovery.
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7 Myths About Outpatient Alcohol Rehab (IOP)
Am I an alcoholic, I wondered? Aren’t alcoholics people who drink bottles of vodka at 7am, sleep under bridges and forget to wash for 10 days? They’re losers, right? That can’t be though, because everyone I just met is like me and pretty likeable. They’re functional, fine, fabulous even. So, I let go of the…