Remember completing the “Cost of Addiction” exercise in treatment? It’s definitely a favorite of recovery group leaders. Where you snatch the worksheet and scribble down all the money you wasted over the years on addiction. Oh, and poor choices, wrong moves, erratic behavior. Basically any and everything responsible for your monetary disasters. I use to worry over it all, … Continue Reading

Someone needs to read this. I can’t recall how many days I let slip away when I was using. Or better put, how many times I used a rainy day as an excuse to wallow in self pity and guilt and drink, drink, drink. My intolerance was so out of control. Any slight environmental shift … Continue Reading

So this passenger wiggled past me during the boarding of this flight. And I knew the moment I sat down and saw her heading down the aisle that she would be my flight mate. Yep, sure enough here she comes. One second, now we all have to get adjusted. Passenger A, her (affectionately referred to as … Continue Reading