Anonymity Dilemma
...struggles can actually serve as a disincentive to someone who knows you and is now beginning to peer uncertainly up their own long and bumpy road of life change.
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A Brief Rant About the Internet
The idea is to collect hits, and that happened the moment you clicked the link. Ad revenue is what it’s all about. The more clicks, the more they can charge.
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12 Step is Holistic
It’s a spiritual program that addresses emotional growth alongside behavior change.
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Good Practice Over Bad Habit
If you’re not fighting your own conscience, you feel better about yourself, and conflicts with others diminish, too.
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Another Debate, Same Subject
The coffee is just not that tasty. Yet they were getting something out of it that was important to them.
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Do-It-Yourself Repairs
By focusing on the welfare of someone else, James had gotten the full benefit of the Ninth Step.
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Holidays Step by Step
Reclaiming holidays doesn’t just keep them from becoming relapse triggers– it can also offer chances to live the joy in recovery.
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Understanding Objections to 12 Step Groups
This is also an opportunity to work on an all-important issue in early recovery: personal boundaries.
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Sobriety: A Graphic Novel
And I needed that gift of desperation to allow the rest of the Steps to work in my life, as I worked them.
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You Get Out What You Put In
It’s a good question to put to a newcomer, in AA/NA or in therapy: “How much work are you willing to put into this process?”
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How AA Works
When I first got into counseling, I had this sneaky feeling that it couldn’t possibly be that simple.
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The Five Percent Meme
People attend AA for a variety of reasons, in different stages of readiness, and with diverse objectives in mind.
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Professionally Suspicious: Clinicians & Recovery Fellowships
You might as well write ‘I don’t want you to go to AA’ in big letters on the wall behind the therapist’s chair. It’s about that obvious.
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