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Continue reading →: Addiction Cartoon
One of the simplest, best explained animations/cartoons I have seen on the subject of addiction and recovery. Recommended.
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How Stories Transform Lives
Continue reading →: How Stories Transform LivesWhen I first came to AA, I wondered how the hell sitting around in a circle listening to one person talking, and the next person talking and …. could have anything to do with my stopping drinking? It didn’t seem very medical or scientific? Did not seem like any sort…
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Continue reading → : WE
This week saw Alcoholics Anonymous celebrate it’s 80th Birthday. Many media outlets have stated that AA was founded 80 years ago but this is not correct. AA was co-founded 80 years ago when Bill Wilson passed on a message of hope to Dr Bob, or Dr Robert Smith to give his…
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Continue reading →: Helping Others Helps Us.
In AA they say people who engage in service, i.e. helping out at meetings, sharing, making the tea and coffee, sponsoring others, helping on A A telephone helplines, inter group etc have a much greater chance of staying sober and in recovery long term than those who do not. Although…
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Continue reading →: Trust
In order to fully recover from alcoholism, addiction and addictive behaviours, we find we have to trust at least one other human being. This might be easy for some, to trust, but for me it was very difficult. Considering my upbringing, this was a big step but as I had…
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Continue reading →: The Fanatic in the Attic
When I first came into recovery the thing that really killed me was realising that my thinking was haywire – that I was generally wrong about everything. My ego was devastated by this newly apparent reality. I had long prided myself in always being the smartest guy in the room…
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Continue reading →: About Us
“When we came into recovery we felt that our life was over but it had barely begun. Your very best years are ahead of you. Things do and continue to get better, and better.” A bit about us and what we hope to achieve in this blogsite. Paul Henry, principal…
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Continue reading →: Filling that “Hole in the Soul”
When I first arrived in AA I was told by a big scary looking man that in AA you will get better. That “we will help you by loving you back to health”. I was quite alarmed by this situation to be honest “loved back to health”? Was this guy…
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Continue reading →: Who Wants to be an Alcoholic?
The social stigma of being an alcoholic prevents many from coming into recovery and treating their illness. And it is an illness but it takes time to realise that – a physiological, psychological, emotional, cognitive, behavioural and spiritual disease. It is as profound an illness as one can have. It…
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Continue reading →: A New Sense of Belonging!
Like many others in recovery from alcoholism and addictive behaviours I grew up with this really uneasy feeling of “not being part of”, “never belonging anywhere”. I felt like I did not belong or did not fit in. In fact it was only when I got to AA that I…
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Continue reading →: Addiction Cartoon
One of the simplest, best explained animations/cartoons I have seen on the subject of addiction and recovery. Recommended.
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Continue reading → : WE
This week saw Alcoholics Anonymous celebrate it’s 80th Birthday. Many media outlets have stated that AA was founded 80 years ago but this is not correct. AA was co-founded 80 years ago when Bill Wilson passed on a message of hope to Dr Bob, or Dr Robert Smith to give his…
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