I held a sleeping girl in my arms today. The girl is my niece. She was born the day I had six months sober. We are linked. There is the blood relation. But I mean something else. I mean our entire relationship is based on my recovery. She is my world, and she is only …
Step two can be a struggle for anyone who has lost touch with their faith, who identifies as atheist, agnostic, ‘spiritual but not religious’, or simply rational and realistic. The idea of a benevolent, compassionate god, let alone one who has a plan, can seem unscientific and illogical. Many addicts and alcoholics talk of praying …
I didn’t think I was crazy. I just thought I drank too much. Until, in those last weeks, I thought I’d honestly lost my mind. I became terribly unable to control myself. Not, simply, how much I drank once I started drinking, but everything. I knew what I wanted, what I meant, what and why …
Alcoholics in their booze have a glazed, half empty way of looking at the world. They are, at one and the same time, hard pressed to realistically envision a future and living on magical thinking, good intentions, promise and procrastination. They live in a shadowy, smokey land of nonsense. It makes no sense to say …
