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Exercise: Making Amends to Your Body
In a world where nothing is in my control and living with a head that constantly tells me I’m not doing enough, exercising every day makes me feel like I’ve checked a box.
12-Step vs SMART Recovery: Are You Powerless or Making a Choice?
The problem with powerlessness is that it becomes all-encompassing and paralyzing. But the idea that addiction is a choice fails to consider many people’s experiences. Maybe there’s a middle ground.
For My Mother, Putting Down the Alcohol Wasn't Enough
As an adult, I struggled to reconcile how my mother could be bone sober but still function like the manipulative, bewildering, and self-absorbed alcoholic I sat next to in all those corner bars as a kid.
6 Things Everyone Should Know About Children in Families with Mental Illness
We don’t talk enough about the children who live with, and rely on, a family member with a mental illness. What sort of support do they need and how can we provide it?
How to Get a Job If You Have a Felony Drug Charge on Your Record
When someone in recovery from addiction has a felony conviction on their record, rejoining society as a normal functioning member can be daunting and far more difficult than anticipated.
Why You Should Embrace AA Groupthink and Shed Your Terminal Uniqueness
AA encouraged me, a sauced snowflake loaded on liquor and individualistic narcissism, to put aside enough of myself to embrace two traits required to curb my alcoholism: discipline and structure.
3 Things My Father Taught Me About Addiction
Reframing the addiction as a disease helped me understand that my father didn’t want to hurt himself or my family.
There's Nothing Wrong With You If AA Doesn’t Work
It isn’t that you’re incapable of being honest with yourself, or that you’re not working a “program” well enough. You are not too broken, or too far gone.
Addiction as a Metaphor for the Climate Crisis: An Interview with Charles Eisenstein
The conventional response to climate change is like the conventional response to addiction: “Well, you’re just going to have to try harder to stop.” I understand climate change as a symptom of a much deeper malady that is inherent to civilization as we know it. In the fall of 2011, a small protest began in… Continue reading Addiction as a Metaphor for the Climate Crisis: An Interview with Charles Eisenstein