‘Wonder Woman’ Lynda Carter In Recovery 23 years One super power at a time – Jan. 7, 2021 - According to the outlet, there is a history of alcoholism in the actress’ family. And during the time Carter began drinking, she was unhappily married to her first hus... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousCelebrity SobrietyInterviewJan 12 2021RecoveryRecovery Advocate
The Road to This Wedding Was Paved With Theft, Lies, Tears Sobriety sometimes leads to marriage – Jan. 8, 2021 - The lessons from the love story of Irene Sibaja and Hal Karp are many, but here are some of the more obvious: The old dating adage “right person, wrong tim... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionJan 12 2021life expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Q&A with Jeannie Rabb-Marshall, publisher of Keys to Recovery Stick with the Winners! – January 5, 2021 - Many of you will remember Jeannie from the Steps for Recovery newspaper, where she worked until 2008 with business partner and good friend Jason Levin, who passed awa... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionInterviewJan 12 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Biggest Danger Sign You’re Drinking Too Much You’re reading this article – Jan. 9, 2021 - “If your pattern of drinking results in repeated significant distress and problems functioning in your daily life, you likely have alcohol use disorder,” their heal... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJan 12 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Men Find Community, Self-worth at Recovery Farm Planting Esteem Seeds – Jan. 9, 2021 - He lost his job and, over the summer, his ex-fiancé beat him up, putting him in the hospital with a broken arm, a fractured foot and a gash across the bridge of his nose.&... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 12 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Mum Shares 10-Step Guide to Sobriety No boozeyness anymore – Jan. 5, 2021 - Justine quit alcohol when she was 40 years old after she spent most of her thirties ‘medicated from alcohol 24/7’. ‘The single turning point was my nine-year-old daught... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionJan 12 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Juggling My Children, Their Alcoholic Sitter and My Own Sobriety All in a days daze – Jan. 8, 2021 - But the struggle doesn’t end with the physical. It’s mental. The misery of protracted withdrawal — dysphoria, depression, irritability — can drag on for weeks. Twelve-step p... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionJan 12 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Memoir Reflects on Prison, Addiction LISTEN – Yourself, destiny, fate, dreams, public defender – Jan. 4, 2021 - In describing his memoir, “The Five People You’ll Meet in Prison,” author Brandon Stickney offers a hard look at New York’s prison system a... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 12 2021life expectancyMental HealthRecovery
‘Mr. Sobriety’: Robert Cote remembered We can, he did – Dec. 27, 2020 - He also created the Addiction Counselor Education Program at Westfield State University (then Westfield State College) and served as the director for 25 years (an extension of t... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionJan 05 2021life expectancyRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Journalist Terry DeMio Covers the Battle Against Addiction All original writing – Dec. 30. 2020 - Why journalism matters. Journalism is living history that tells truths we might never learn otherwise. It quickly informs people, and the rapid publication of journalism ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 05 2021Recovery
Adrian Ray Evans Pens Fourth Book on Alcoholism He Can’t Stop – Jan. 1, 2021 - “We can’t meet now because of COVID,” Evans said. “But when we can meet, I’m there.” He said, “I was 50 when I quit drinking. It was a very serious problem for me for the last 14 t... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusinterventionJan 05 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Bartender Starts Ben’s Friends to Help Restaurant Workers With Addiction Extended families matter – Jan. 1, 2021 - If he hadn’t already started drinking hours before with patrons while on the clock, he’d start soon after finishing work late at night. Pocketing the cash he’d earned ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 05 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
The Gift of Sobriety: Dusty Rose WATCH – Sharing from the heart – Dec. 31, 2020 - (ABC 6 NEWS) - Dusty Rose, who is in recovery at Recovery is Happening, went in-depth on her journey and how she is recovering through the pandemic. mor... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionJan 05 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Pandemic Doesn’t Stop Woman’s Sobriety WATCH – Prayer, meditation and reading – Jan. 1, 2021 - For thousands like Milczarski, however, those recovery keystones were upended when the coronavirus pandemic came to Pennsylvania almost 10 months ago. Iso... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 05 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Community Leader Celebrates 25 Years of Sobriety WATCH – And just getting started – Jan. 1, 2021 - “I probably should have gone to detention, but my dad fought to get me treatment,” Allen recalls. Allen didn’t join YSS quietly. “I fought it tooth and nail fo... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionJan 05 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabrelapse
Dax Shepard: About His Struggle With Addiction Talk is cheap – Jan. 2, 2021 - Shepard celebrated a major milestone in his sobriety journey in September 2016. “12 years ago today I came out of my last toxic, life threatening stupor. I now have a wife & ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewJan 05 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Collegiate Recovery Community Helps MSU Students LISTEN – Academia not bulimia – Dec. 29, 2020 - Chris studied marketing at MSU and has established himself as a business leader, public speaker, coach, mentor, and lifelong student striving to be of service to... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionJan 05 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Louis Theroux’s Grounded podcast – Frankie Boyle: Alcoholism and the ‘horror’ of Early Life The Horror – Dec. 29, 2020 - Boyle told Theroux he was drinking vodka as a child and “was definitely up for drinking on my own from my teens”. When asked whether he was still functional and managing to hold... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionJan 05 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
Elton John Discusses ZOOM AA Meetings with The Royals WATCH – Yes, he gets pinned – Dec. 30, 2020 - “I connect with friends who I’ve known for over 30 years in the programme, and that’s great.” Meghan and Harry – who resigned from the British Royal Family in Janu... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity Sobrietycell phoneCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionInterviewJan 05 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
What a Year of Staring at Our Own Faces on Zoom Has Done To Us Zoom Zoom on my desk, who’s the fairest? – December 30, 2020 - This year, we’ve spent an unholy amount of time staring at our own reflections on Zoom calls, Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts and FaceTime. We sh... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionJan 05 2021life expectancylonelinessMental HealthRecoveryRehabrelapse
Chrissy Teigen: ‘I was done making an ass out of myself’ WATCH – We’ve all been there – Dec. 31, 2020 - “I was done with making an a-- of myself in front of people (I’m still embarrassed), tired of day drinking and feeling like s--t by 6, not being able to sleep,” Te... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassiondepressioninterventionInterviewJan 05 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Anthony Hopkins Celebrates 45 Years with Video VIDEO – The Knight of Sobriety – Dec. 29, 2020 - Noting that 2020 has been a tough year “full of grief and sadness,” “The Two Popes” star revealed that 45 years ago he received a “wake up call.” “I was heade... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionInterviewJan 05 2021life expectancyRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
How Mental Healthcare and Rehab Changed During Pandemic by Mike Bayer It’s complicated... – Dec. 23, 2020 - Second, there’s been a noticeably larger percentage of individuals that come to us requiring intensive mental healthcare compared to previous years. On average, approximate... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDec 29 2020depressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabrelapse
San Antonio Mother Who Beat Addiction Gives Back WATCH – Each one, teach one – Dec. 24, 2020 - Harper was one of the first mothers to move in and she is a success story. She eventually moved out with her son and now has a place of own and was recently hired ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousCompassionDec 29 2020Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
The Last Time I Drank, My Husband Found Me Bleeding LISTEN – There is a way out... – Dec. 24, 2020 - As the sun rose in the sky, the gathered mob once again settled into respective groups. Barefoot kids peppered the paddock playing backyard cricket. The bar tabl... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousDec 29 2020interventionMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Dangerous Side Effects of Drinking Every Day WATCH – Not to mention DUI’s – Dec. 25, 2020 - Perhaps one of the most known effects of drinking in excess is damage to the liver. The liver is responsible for breaking down and removing harmful substances and... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousDec 29 2020interventionlife expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Man Starts Knitting Group to Help People Recover From Addiction Idle hands... – Dec. 27, 2020 - As Mendonca spent his days knitting yarn and making his own unique creations, fellow residents at the facility began to take notice. One by one, Mendonca’s solo hobby turned i... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDec 29 2020Drug Abuse and AddictionhomelessinterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabsuicide
Debut Novel Offers up Sobriety at the Apocalypse MEDIA: Book Recommendation – Dec. 18, 2020 - Q: Also, as a first-time novelist what was the biggest writing hurdle you faced? A: Having a day job makes it difficult to tackle creative projects with an... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 29 2020Drug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery Advocate
CC Sabathia on Baseball, Retirement, Alcoholism WATCH – Trailer for new doc “Under the Grapefruit Tree” – Dec. 21, 2020 - That painful period, and Sabathia’s road to the big leagues, are featured in the new documentary “Under the Grapefruit Tree,” which pre... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCoronavirusDec 29 2020Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRehab
Struggling With Addiction? Here’s a NYE Lifeline Start 2021 SOBER – Dec. 23, 2020 - Last year, Garcia launched the Dallas Sober New Year’s Eve party, but COVID-19 forced her to reimagine the concept as an online resource available to anyone seeking help — ev... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDec 29 2020depressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehab