Growing Up, I Never Grew Up My name is David Delorenzo. I was born June 2, 1981. My clean date is May 1, 2015. So that’s three years and some change. I grew up in San Diego California. I am the youngest of three boys. My two brothers are only a year and a […]
By: T. Rose “Facets, Matthew. Each facet catches the light in its own way. It glints and sparkles and flashes uniquely. It would almost be possible to believe that the facet was the jewel; not just a tiny part of it. Bet, then, as we move the jewel another facet catches the light.” “So? […]
By: Jess Gaggi “Don’t you think you’re quite young?’ ‘I’m twenty-one,’ said Brida. ‘If I wanted to start learning ballet, I’d be considered too old.” ― Paulo Coelho Yeah, We’re Young: Famous People and Me: Born in 1995 ___ The name is Gaggi, Jess Gaggi. No, it isn’t my maiden name but let’s […]
Ben Rose reminds us of the beginning of recovery support meetings. That was face-time; today it’s screen-time. Both are supportive for our recovery.
By Whitney McKendree Moore Who’s The Real Manager Here? This photograph was posted with the caption, “BRANCH MANAGER AND ASSISTANT BRANCH MANAGER.” I howled (pun intended) because that little dangler is me. My real puny status was not in the least bit funny when I first crawled into Twelve-Step recovery, exhausted from years of […]
Treating David’s addiction as a primary diagnosis was not the way forward for him. Stopping the use was relatively easy compared to finding the underlying issue on why he did what he did.
By: Dr. Noelle Sterne Over dessert with a friend, I steered the conversation to one of my favorite topics, spirituality. After my second eloquent sentence, she burst out, “Oh, I don’t have time to be spiritual!” I started to clarify, but she changed the subject to her impossible office job. Like a good […]
By: Marilyn L. Davis “I guess my biggest problem is that I find it easier to return to active addiction than to carry through.” ― S.A. Tawks, Mule While we’ll get any number of answers from people, the usual excuses for returning to active addiction seem to fit into the following: “I […]
As an old spiritual says, “nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen.” I suspect though that most addicts know. My problems in life were not unique, I just had more of them than most. And, my problems were compounded from an early age.
By: C. W. Stratton Judgement: We’re All Experts on Others “Judging others is easy because it distracts us from the responsibility of judging ourselves.” ~Charles Glassman, Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life Trying to discern another person’s level of commitment to recovery is such a challenging task. When interacting […]
Can’t believe we’re all going to France, but I’m hitting a recovery support meeting even if I don’t speak French.
By: Tricia Moceo “I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I’d drink, and all the sadness would go away. Not only did the sadness go away, but I was fantastic. …But at some point, the booze stopped working. That’s when drinking started sucking. Every time I drank, […]
By: Marilyn L. Davis Am I Different or Just Have Bad Luck? ___ We have all asked ourselves why things turn out negatively for us, or why the same kinds of outcomes keep happening to us. It’s always the same, we never get a different outcome. ___ Some of us even […]
By: Bill Weiss Addiction – Always a Dead End Road ____ Addiction has become one of the most prevalent issues in our country. Accidental drug overdose is now one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Last year more people died due to a drug-related overdose than the entire Vietnam War. […]
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