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How to Stay Sober: Rational Recovery

I can still remember my first 30 days of sobriety with a surprising amount of clarity. I never want to go back there. Becoming clean and sober was all-consuming for me, every waking, breathing hour was...

21 comments    drinking detox beast
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Top Signs of Relapse for Addicts

First, I'll just put it out there: I'm an addict in recovery. I certainly don't fit the societal profile or images conjured up in people's heads about what that means. I've never lived on the streets, never...

22 comments    alcohol addiction recovery
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The Importance of the Sobriety Anniversary

I recently overheard a comment from someone who said “Sobriety anniversary? Who would ever want to celebrate being sober?” And to that I replied, “Well, for someone who was destroying their lives with...

0 comments    life relationships friends
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Quotes About Surfing, Zen & Recovery

One of the greatest things about the sport of surfing is that you need only three things: your body, a surf-board, and a wave. -Naima Green A Zen master used to say, "It is clear and so it is hard to see....

4 comments    health life advice
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slippery when dry? updated

slippery when dry, ouch, hurts. Please feel better soon Slippery when Dry Let me be sure, cause all of you say I may join your gang Your club or whatever The one your portraying is ever so clever And in...

21 comments    love life family
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Alanon - Saviours Of Sanity

Living with someone else’s drinking problem is a crazy, depressing and extremely lonely experience. Alanon though, offers the chance to do things differently and save your own sanity.

0 comments    alcohol recovery drinking
This a picture of the Betty Ford Center which is one of the better know treatment centers. This is not an endorsement.74

Alcoholism Disease and Treatment

This a picture of the Betty Ford Center which is one of the better know treatment centers. This is not an endorsement. Alcoholism is a serious illness without a cure. There is no know cause for alcoholism....

6 comments    treatment alcohol addiction
Looking down on my home I wonder how I never came to take in this view until I was in recovery.57

Saving your own life, health and sanity in recovery.

Looking down on my home I wonder how I never came to take in this view until I was in recovery. The animal who lives in this log didnt question gods will, should I? I grew up loving the great outdoors, I...

3 comments    health god exercise
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Back In Action!

I'm BACK from treatment and in better shape than ever! I couldn't have asked for a better treatment facility, it was sad leaving the warm weather of Arizona to come back to the cooler weather of Chicago but...

2 comments    health spirituality depression
Are You an Alcoholic?69

Alcoholism - Alternatives to AA

Are you, or someone you know, an alcoholic? The highly regarded Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is the largest and most widely known self-help organization for alcoholics in the United States. There are approximately 53,665 AA groups...

8 comments    addiction self help recovery
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