I was really pleased to come across Recovery Movie Meet Ups concept recently. When I was in treatment many years ago, we used to watch a movie once a week and it felt like a cheap way of keeping a few clucking addicts quiet, amused or comatose for a couple Continue Reading
WHAT IF I LOSE MY MOJO?
I was fascinated to read this article in The Guardian. One of the most common themes I’ve encountered with people seeking recovery who have an interest in the creative spheres, or who make their living through creativity, is the fear of creating without using – or rather if they will Continue Reading
SAY SOBER, STAY SOBER – STIGMA FREE
This excellent, uplifting article by Maggie Doherty in The Guardian raises some fascinating areas for debate, study and I would even venture – research. The two things that jumped out at me concerned “stigma”, and non-alcoholic drinks. I touched on some thoughts about the stigma surrounding alcoholism in previous posts, Continue Reading
LIVE AND LET LIVE
A big thanks to the National Centre For Social Research For their latest (September2022) Report on British social attitudes. Their latest annual poll was reported on by those lovely people at Positive News who reported the following:- “The majority of the UK public are now in agreement with so-called ‘woke’ Continue Reading
Curiouser and Curiouser – Down the rabbit hole of sobriety!
How important is the portrayal of addiction and recovery in popular culture? The change in the way addicts are represented (remember Norm in Cheers), through to the plethora of representations (too many to list but special mention to Mae Martin – Feel Good) of the past few years suggests a Continue Reading
DRINKING PROBLEM – THINKING PROBLEM
Here we are part way through January and it’s two growingly popular monthly challenges, Dry January and Veganuary. I’m just thinking about the drinking one for now. I was reminded of an old saying reading Sam Thomas’s piece in The Independent this week. “Giving up drinking for a month proves Continue Reading
FREEDOM IS THE MAIN(E) THING!
I had not come across Erin French until a friend sent me a link to a BBC World Service programme from their Outlook strand. I can’t recommend it enough, just click here A decade ago Erin French’s life was in tatters. She was in rehab having lost her restaurant, Continue Reading
TRANSFORMERS – or How Philosophy Can Help Recovery
In 2016 I posted a brief note about philosophy (stoicism in particular) and recovery with a link to an article from 99U. At that time the “modern Stoic” movement was already well underway. The interest in the Stoic philosophers has continued to grow unabated. Books like The Daily Stoic, by Continue Reading
IT MIGHT NOT BE “THE THING” BUT IT IS A THING
This article by John Crace appeared in The Guardian UK edition on Monday 27th of December. Whilst by no means a completist site, I don’t try to catch everything to do with addiction and recovery posted everywhere, I do try to collect and archive messages that mean something to me Continue Reading
Guilt or “Something is Wrong”
Recently we posted an article, Second Life, by our friend Charlie Harrow. Charlie, a writer, busy on a number of projects. knows his stuff. In between his writing projects he had started developing reflective pieces on his experience with alcohol, alcoholism, recovery and more. This is the second in what Continue Reading