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“Behavioral Addiction - Not Otherwise Specified”
Submitted by recoveryrob on May 16, 2012 - 5:54pm
I recently read an article, “Addiction Diagnoses May Rise Under Guideline Changes” in the New York Times, and I’d like to share my thoughts here on Pat Moore Foundation’s blog. Having worked in, been around, and walked the walk of addiction recovery, I think the changing of the guidelines is perfectly reasonable.
Looking into Step 3 of Al-Anon
Continued from: Al-Anon – Working Step Two
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Al-Anon – Working Step Two
Continued from: Al-Anon – Controlling Situations We Can’t
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Sponsee Rewards
Submitted by recoveryrob on May 3, 2012 - 6:53pm
I picked up a sponsee yesterday, and I need to be honest here, it’s a part of the program I don’t care for that much. Well, at least at first. Since I began attending AA many years ago, it’s been one of the pieces I understand so little. No, it’s not that I don’t get the idea of it, and it’s one of the best ways to give back to a program that’s been there for me. It’s just that it makes me uneasy that anyone would see me as an example of sobriety.
Chief Financial Officer, Roger W. Kendrick Passes Away
Roger W. Kendrick, Chief Financial Officer at Pat Moore Foundation, passed away this last weekend. Mr. Kendrick had more the thirty years in business development as well as fifteen years of financial planning development for the California State and County Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs.
Tips on Starting an Alateen Meeting
My recovery from addiction is always first and foremost, so attending Al-Anon Meetings is the perfect addition to a pretty good program. It’s not a perfect personal recovery program, but I just do the best I can. I still don’t know how I’ve missed out on this incredible program. It continues to boggle my mind. It’s teaching me how to let go of many concepts, notions, and anxieties that I haven’t been able to work through in AA. Not sure why, but heck, why question success when it happens. Just enjoy it, don’t overanalyze!
Al-Anon – Controlling Situations We Can’t
More Al-Anon Step One Work
“We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.”
With nearly all step work, whether or not it is Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Al-Anon, or another helpful 12-step group, the work is often times more than just a one time sitting; even the first time through. Often times, a lot of issues come up that need to be addressed.
Al-Anon – Step One
“We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.”
As promised, I will take what I learn from Al-Anon and share it here. Before I do that though, I’d like to share that this process is familiar. It’s not easy due to familiarity, but the feelings I had when I came into addiction recovery many years ago are not there. I can forge forward with more courage than I did over 19 years ago.
Alateen & Al-Anon: It’s Not About MY Drinking
Submitted by recoveryrob on March 28, 2012 - 4:12pm
Growing up in a household where someone has a drinking problem is extremely difficult. It doesn’t matter if it’s a mother, father, sister, brother, uncle, aunt, grandparent or even a friend, but growing up surrounded by addiction has lasting effects.
Alcoholism: A Family Disease
Submitted by recoveryrob on March 21, 2012 - 5:51pm
What used to be one of the most overlooked aspects of alcoholism is the family. Alcoholism is a family disease. Most family members have come to believe they need to take care of the addict so that nothing bad happens to them, or they learn to stay out to the way. A family member really never knows the erratic mood of an addict. One minute the addict could be screaming and angry at everything, including what seems to be the air around them, and the next they could be passive, depressed, and inconsolable.
