Image credit: Photo by Thomas Hawk on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Earlier this month, Jason at The Second Road linked to an article by Nina Caplan, a writer who shares her experience of going without alcohol for a month. What struck me in reading her piece was how boring she found life without alcohol. [...]
Posts under ‘alcoholism’
Guest Post: Recovery Relationships, On Thin Ice but Safer Together
Today's guest post comes from my very good long-time recovery blogging friend The Discovering Alcoholic, who (like all of my guest posters) had me nodding along in recognition and agreement with his thoughts on the tricky act of balancing individual recovery with recovery within relationships... (Note on comments: I'm a control freak and moderate my [...]
April Is Awareness Month
Image credit: Photo by h.koppdelaney on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons April is awareness month for two issues that are near and dear to my heart: Autism April is National Autism Awareness Month and April 2nd is World Autism Day. Of course, my family doesn't need a special month or day for autism; around our [...]
Not Bad Enough
Image credit: Photo by Cynergist on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons This past weekend, I had the privilege to attend a daylong class on Buddhism and recovery led by Kevin Griffin, author of One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps. At one point during the day, we broke off into pairs to [...]
What I Hate about Recovery Blogs
One of my favorite bloggers, The Discovering Alcoholic, is traveling in Japan and asked me to write a guest post to help him out. Answering the call of "help!" is one of my codependent superpowers, so I grabbed my codie cape and started typing. His suggested topic: what I hate about recovery blogs. Well, being [...]
False Talismans
Image credit: Photo by Alé on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I took myself out to lunch today. Nothing fancy, just a fast food place. I was appropriately decked out for the occasion in my classy mom gear: a battered old college sweatshirt. The man waiting on me looked, I thought, older than I am. [...]
Dry Codie
Image credit: Photo by Vu Bui on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Many years ago, I was in a relationship that was extremely dysfunctional and unhealthy for me; so much so that my marriage to a sex addict has always (even at its absolute worst) seemed to me to be healthy by comparison. In that [...]
The Glass Castle and the Invisible Codependent
Recently, I was sick as a dog, and while I was in bed recovering, I worked my way through several books that had been collecting dust on my beside table for months, including The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. The book is a memoir about growing up in a deeply dysfunctional family, dominated by an [...]
Grief and Recovery
Image credit: Photo by Creativity+ Timothy K Hamilton on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When I first found out about my husband's sex addiction, a therapist suggested that I go to a grief support group. The suggestion felt so uncomfortable to me that I never did follow through on it. I thought, "How are these [...]
To Infinity and Beyond
Image credit: Photo by jakedobkin on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When I first found out about my husband's addiction, I saw recovery as a destination. Mark would get into recovery, work the 12 Steps and our life and our marriage would go back to something resembling what it had been. I wasn't quite sure [...]
