Alcohol and Drug Abuse –The Role Anxiety Plays
“Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested – ask any doctor – that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety Read More …
Category: Emotions
A.A. and Self-Centered Pride
Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) and Self Centered Pride “There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‘Good pride’ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‘Bad pride’ is the deadly sin Read More …
ANGER’S POISON AND ADDICTION
“Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right Read More …
AA: TEN THINGS TO FORGIVE OURSELVES TO FREEDOM
“By forgiving others, I am given forgiveness. It does not matter that the other person may never accept my forgiveness. What does matter is that by my giving forgiveness, forgiveness Read More …
Addiction Recovery through a Change in Perception
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact! Everything we see is our perspective, not the truth.” Marcus Aurelius One story in the life of a chronic drinker in Read More …
FORGIVENESS
We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive. T. D. Jakes Provided to you by Guest Writer: David Chaloner, Life Read More …
What’s Your Worry Score?
Freedom from worry brings you a host of benefits. According to Dr. Amit (UH Mit) Sood, Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living, because people who worry less have better physical Read More …
Self-Centered Pride
“Guilt aims at self-destruction and pride aims at the destruction of others.” Grapevine June, 1961. Pride, as related in the 12 Steps and Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous, leads the Read More …
IT Is Not Our Fault
“I wish for all of us the blindness of love that makes us see no faults in the other.” ― Kamand Kojouri It Is Not Our Fault. It must be Read More …
Finding My Way
“NOT UNTIL WE ARE LOST DO WE BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND OURSELVES.” —Henry David Thoreau This writing thing makes me feel so insecure it scares me. I sent my manuscript out to Read More …