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Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. VI, No. 2) November 2017 Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through the lenses of poetry, memoir, opinion, essays, fiction, humor, art, media reviews and psycho-education. Contributors...

Slaying Your Weekend Warrior is a concise do-it-yourself guidebook for anyone who is looking to eliminate alcohol from their life. This self-reflective workshop will teach you how to break free from the grips of excessive alcohol consumption by replacing destructive habits with positive and productive routines.

I couldn't spell and had hardly written a letter in my life. I’d always had someone else to do mail for me. But I was determined to learn, and with one finger I started. I decided to write about some of the things I remembered from childhood, and that's how I got properly started. Before long I...

Author Suzanne Schlosberg has long been one of the country’s top health and nutrition writers, with many bestselling titles in the health and fitness field. The book is based on the techniques and clinical protocols used in the ACS/Quit For Life® Program, the nation’s leading evidence-based...

I touched bottom, as alcoholics like to say, on 12 February 1983 (the date is slightly fuzzy). Thirty-one years ago John Sutherland nearly lost everything to drink. A married man, with family, working as a visiting professor of English on the west coast of America, he awoke from a blackout to find...

Tired of being told to quit, put it out, stand outside, have some consideration, think about your health ...? The list of complaints against smokers would take much longer than a fag break to read out, and many of us (even those who don't smoke) have had just about enough of it! The passive whingeing...

Throughout his college years, Toren Volkmann partied like there was no tomorrow, having what was supposed to be the time of his life. Like so many parents, his mother, Chris, overlooked Toren’s growing alcohol problem. But when he graduated, Toren realized he’d become a full-blown alcoholic. And...

She could hear her dad’s words. “If you’re so bored, why don’t you just go play on the railroad tracks.” Going back home is never easy especially when you’re making the trip because a parent is ill. And so the journey begins for this daughter who has packed up everything she owns,...

The poems here are for people struggling to move forward in their lives. The characters in some of the pieces have had substance abuse problems and are trying their best in therapy. Recovery is hard, but they are determined to hang in there. There are also poems for people who have lost their faith and friendship through the years. Have a tissue ready as you read the beautiful stories here.

Does God still perform miracles? Stanton Horn was once an ordinary boy. When he was ten years old, his life was altered forever. A family friend sexually molested him. After this horrific and traumatic event, he became a drug addicted and sexually confused man who lost everyone and everything...

My heart had replayed his death a thousand times. It is the phone call I have dreaded, as the voice on the other end of the line informs me he has been found dead from an overdose. This cant be. No, this just cant be happening. Why couldnt I save him? How am I going to live without him? Please God,...

Daily meditations that provide healing insight with a lighthearted touch into the common struggles that codependents and those in Al-Anon frequently face. “By the time I’d gotten to Al-Anon… people responded with ‘Thank God,’ or ‘It’s about time.’ I wasn’t a horrible person....

Are you an alcoholic? It took me 30 years to accept that I am one. My drinking days were sheer Hell. I was on a tortuous road full of potholes and pitfalls. I wanted to stop drinking, but couldn't. I got drunk in San Francisco, London, Paris, Rome, Istanbul, Cairo, Kinshasa, Bangkok and many...

Matthew D. Hirschberg’s extraordinary journey serves as proof that any obstacle in life can be overcome. Matt’s story is one of redemption, and a great reminder that personal responsibility helps pave the road to success. From his early days involving drugs, prison, and obesity, to his current...