Topic: recovery memoir

As control erodes, the drinker redoubles efforts to regain it. Some resort to “white-knuckle” abstinence, giving up alcohol for a while, just to prove to themselves or someone else that they can.

Nine months ago I was rummaging through your garbage for 5¢ cans. Today I am an author.

It was as if he were speaking my story- different people, same ending.

And I needed that gift of desperation to allow the rest of the Steps to work in my life, as I worked them.

The author’s biggest issue is “himself.” He fought a constant battle for perfection, to show that he was as good as anyone else.