Have you been helped?
I think it’s pretty much universally agreed upon by those of us recovery that asking for help is hard. Someone mentions the gruesome deliberation it took to get to that […]
135: Making Death Part of Life (Sort Of)
We are talking about death. Like, your death. And our death. Death is a topic that we mostly avoid as a society. Even when we see it happening before our […]
134: Spiritual Principle – Trust (Sort Of)
The spiritual principle of trust. We continue to examine a spiritual principle each month. We delve into what trust is, how to practice trust, ways that might be useful to […]
133: Billy’s Story Part 2 (Sort Of)
Continuing in with Billy’s story, this is part 2, the recovery years. Billy shares about what it was like to get into recovery, the challenges of early recovery, some of […]
132: Billy’s Story Part 1 (Sort Of)
Billy steps up to tell his story. This isn’t a story told in the sense of a 12 step share, more of just a personal history. Billy recounts the events […]
Born this way? Really?
It’s April, and it’s my birth month. Our family tradition is to go out to eat for birthdays, and this year I chose a local waterfront restaurant we know and […]
131: Spiritual Principle – Courage (Sort Of)
We are talking about courage today. What is courage? How would we develop and strengthen courage? Is it a process of being braver? Or is courage what happens when we […]
130: Can You Safely Isolate? (Sort Of)
We are talking about isolation. You might have heard the saying that “An addict alone is in bad company.” Or maybe “You’re never really alone because your higher power is […]
129: Is the Abstinence Voice Lacking? (Sort Of)
In the world of scientific data, new understandings of the internal mechanisms that create substance abuse, and harm reduction, have we lost the voice of abstinence? We have on Alexis […]
128: Harm Reduction in Action (Sort Of)
What is harm reduction? Why would we want to offer harm reduction to people? Does harm reduction already exist in other areas of life? Does harm reduction limit people’s desire […]
