My Alcoholism & Recovery

First, let’s talk about what is considered normal drinking. Drinking one or two drinks a day is usually considered ok. If you find yourself having a glass of wine every night for dinner, it does not mean you are going to turn into a alcoholic, however if you find yourself drinking more as time goes […]

This always gave me a problem. I might be powerless over you, but was I really powerless over asking for a drink and then drinking it?
Powerless over alcohol? No, I don’t think so - perhaps once I had a few drinks, but powerless is the wrong word. It was my power, my […]

Well first and foremost I could not stop drinking on my own. I tried for many years to stop on my own as I hated the though of being in something like AA. That part goes away after a while.
But why still go many years later?
I have only one answer that really helps […]

Alcohol is one of the hardest drugs to stop using considering its wide spread use and popularity in today’s culture. It is easily accessible at most convenience stores and as we all know, convenience stores are everywhere. For a person trying to kick their addiction, something as simple as paying for a tank of gasoline […]

Alcoholism is a progressive disease that can take years to develop. Alcoholism can be defined as a disease in which the sufferer is compelled to drink, even though it is negatively affecting his relationships, his work and his family.
Men and women who aren’t pregnant can usually consume a drink a day without adverse health affects. […]

Yes, I have changed, it is fairly easy to see in my life. Just stopping drinking and drugging makes quite a big change anyway; but I have changed much more than that. I know this, my friends know this, the people I live with see it every day - but every now and […]

I have got used to the idea that I wake up on Saturdays and I am sober, that I remember the night before, that I don’t have that brain racking in my head wondering what I did, where I was, and what did I say to people.
It is a simple matter of record that I […]

Looking after myself is something that I have learned to do. I was not very good at just after I got sober, I could wash, brush my teeth, eat okay; however I had no real value system in my life. Well I had, it had been drink and use as much as possible and try […]

The thought of having to think when I was an active teen drinker…  well it just never happened, but here is what goes on now.
I hate making any large decision. I become very scared of what might happen. Many of my decisions in the past have ended up fairly crap, but not so much since […]

Yesterday was my sober anniversary. It did not feel like just
another day. When I was first getting sober I found it imposable to
imagine that I would ever be this long without a drink. And on the
occasions that I could I imagined it, I thought of someone whose life
would be more. More of what I am […]