The Alcoholics Guide to Alcoholism

    • “The Bottled Scream” a book on addiction, trauma and recovery
    • 12 Steps
    • A Family Disease
    • A History of Mutual Aid Groups
    • A Spiritual Solution?
    • About
    • Addiction
    • Attachment
    • Beyond Self
    • Co-dependency
    • Co-Morbidities?
    • Distorted Thinking
    • Eating and Body Disorders
    • Gambling Disorder
    • Genetics and Vulnerability
    • Links
    • OCD
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    • Porn Addiction
    • Prevention
    • Recovery
    • Sex Addiction
    • Shame
    • Spiritual Malady Explained
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    • Why?
  • Addiction as a disease of Self, Book, The Bottled Scream

    Chapter 1 “Rock Bottom”

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    August 26, 2023
    Chapter 1 “Rock Bottom”

    This is part of a series called “The Bottled Scream” A Disease of Self – Understanding Addiction and Recovery. To go back to the introduction click here. Addiction Chapter 1 Rock Bottom My alcoholism almost killed me. I had spent the last nine months in alcoholic psychosis, the so-called DTs…

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  • Addiction as a disease of Self, Book, The Bottled Scream

    “The Bottled Scream” A Disease of Self – Understanding Addiction and Recovery

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    August 26, 2023
    “The Bottled Scream”                                              A Disease of Self – Understanding Addiction and Recovery

    Introduction Getting To the Root of All Our Troubles I was born into trauma and know no different. Trauma, with a helping of genetic disposition, gave birth to addiction and alcoholism which it then used to try and kill me. It led be to a place that I strongly believe…

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    Getting To The Roots of All Our Troubles

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    September 2, 2018

      Below is my feature article for Keys to Recovery Newspaper. This article address how 12 step recovery treats the emotional disorder which underpins the “spiritual malady” that drives alcoholism. http://www.keystorecoverynewspaper.com/   “My alcoholism almost killed me. It was only when my wife withdrew from me after she had exhausted all possibilities…

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    Alcoholics Guide to Alcoholism Podcast – What You Need is a Good Listening To!

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    July 6, 2018
    Alcoholics Guide to Alcoholism Podcast – What You Need is a Good Listening To!

    The many benefits, especially in early recovery,  of simply listening without interrupting to someone getting something “off their chest” .

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  • alcoholics guide to alcoholism podcast, Uncategorized

    Alcoholics Guide to Alcoholism Podcast – The Family Disease of Alcoholism

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    July 5, 2018
    Alcoholics Guide to Alcoholism Podcast – The Family Disease of Alcoholism

    Alcoholism is a family disease. This podcast address how other family members can come to have an awareness about the condition of alcoholism and that there is more to stopping drinking than stopping drinking.”

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    Alcoholics Guide to Alcoholism Podcast – Unmanageability

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    July 4, 2018
    Alcoholics Guide to Alcoholism Podcast – Unmanageability

    Podcast – We discuss manageability in alcoholism and recovery.

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    Alcoholics Guide to Alcoholism Podcast

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    July 4, 2018
    Alcoholics Guide to Alcoholism Podcast

    A series of podcasts on alcoholism and recovery

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  • “not being part of”, “not belonging”, 12 steps, a distressed based condition, a family disease, a family recovery, a learnt attachment, a message of hope, a pathomechanism of alcoholism, a sense of belonging, a spiritual solution, AA

    Keys to Recovery Interview

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    July 3, 2018
    Keys to Recovery Interview

    I was delighted  to be asked and honored to take part in one of the excellent “The Hope Interviews” with Steve Jones for the recovery newspaper “Keys to Recovery”.

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    He’ll Be Back

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    June 16, 2017
    He’ll Be Back

    I think there is a condition called para-alcoholism whereby the partners of alcoholics become emotionally drunk and deluded in their thinking. They believe they are better and more in control than their alcoholic partners whereas in reality the abnormal conditions of living with an alcoholic have existed for so long…

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  • addiction, compulsion, craving, obsessive thoughts, sex addiction, Uncategorized

    This Fleshy Hunger

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    June 11, 2017
    This Fleshy Hunger

    This Fleshy Hunger refers to that craving that consumes a man and takes up all his thoughts and possesses him with one intent, to satisfy those desires. The title is a term used to describe sex addiction but it could also describe various pathological yearnings.

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