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Book Review: Sober Siblings: How to Help Your Alcoholic Brother or Sister –...
If you have a sister or brother struggling with the disease of alcoholism, and need help, look no further. Sober Siblings, by Patricia Olsen and Petros Levounis, M.D., M.A., provides some of the best...
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Undertow
When I was a kid, out attending my sister’s wedding in Miami, when my nieces and nephew were still just a future twinkle, we all went down to the ocean. I loved to swim. I mean LOVED it. Had been...
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The Easy Way Or The True-To-Yourself Way?
Sometimes the limited choices we have can make us feel as if we’re caught between a rock and a hard place. Try and imagine the following situations, and think of how you would honestly respond: The...
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Putting On That Other Pair Of Shoes
Gentle readers, I’ve been trying and trying to write this blog, wanting it to be gentle and light, to bring you good vibes so you’ll come back and keep reading. But my mind and heart are heavy with all...
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Why I Don’t Like Al-Anon Meetings
Okay. This post might make a whole lot of people angry. Let me just start by saying I love Al-Anon itself. It literally saved my life and my relationship with my sister. So let’s just clear that up,...
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Positive Psychology
To prepare for this blog post, I read Martin Seligman’s Authentic Happiness in two days. It was a pretty major feat for me, since I’m usually a slow reader, especially when it comes to nonfiction...
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A is for Acceptance
Acceptance is a difficult concept to deal with, even if we’re not talking about alcoholism. None of us wants to be unacceptable, or excluded from a group, whether we’re small children, adolescents, or...
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B is for Blaming
My sister’s three children, who are grown adults now — the eldest is forty, and the younger two are in their late thirties — like to blame her for the way their lives are now, drawing on countless...
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“Our pressures and anxieties don’t disappear just because we are sober.” –Living With Sobriety, p. 18 My father was an alcoholic. Though he never missed a day of his job as a police officer, he drank...
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