I’m sure I’ve said this before, probably in the first incarnation of this record of my journey in recovery, that if you spend any significant part of your life in the company of people who are trying to recover, you see a lot of people die. Addicts, as a class of people (and I’m really …
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Reprinted from November 30, 2008 Few other things make me feel as secure and contented as new socks and underwear. Although I’ve had a few new socks and a couple of pair of boxers a couple of times since I got sober, there were none in the 2 years before and no new t-shirts at all. Yesterday I threw …
You hear this all the time. “An addict has to hit rock bottom before they’ll recover.” Let me be clear, the concept of “rock bottom” only has value as part of a personal narrative — as part of the story a person with SUD (substance use disorder, otherwise and disparagingly known as an addict) tells …
One of the things about a relapse is that you can see it coming and still feel powerless to do anything about it. In 12 step recovery they often tell us, however, that “in God’s economy nothing is wasted.” My relapse was a waste but I refuse to let the experience be wasted. I’ll tell …
