3 Things to Consider When Bringing Up Your Loved One’s Addiction So, your sister has become dependent on opiate pain relievers. At first, she was taking them for a legitimate reason–a terribly painful broken ankle. Now her ankle is improving and...
Yay, we’re sober! Oh hey, most of the rest of the world isn’t! A lot of us experience this recognition early on in recovery. In order to make progress and stay on our path, we need to let go of many of our “lower companions” with whom we used. But what about close...
No one likes to talk about it. You may not even want to think about it. And yet it does happen; men and women with years of sobriety, who serve as sponsors and mentors to countless others, regularly relapse. One of my best friends in early sobriety had a sponsor named...
One of the most important tasks in recovery is learning to take responsibility for our lives and relationships. For many of us accustomed to blaming people and circumstances for our addictions and our unhappiness, this is a hard lesson. The Big Book’s insistence that...
I was talking to a normie friend of mine recently. This friend has been divorced twice and is just getting ready to go on the dating apps—Tinder, Bumble and Plenty of Fish. He worries that two divorces will be a serious strike against him. Another friend of mine has...
I had less than 60 days clean when my sponsor told me I had to start helping newer guys. I was stunned. I had less than two months of sobriety. What did I have to give? I was just starting the Third Step. I’d already heard I couldn’t start sponsoring anyone formally...
