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
Dougie Dudgeon
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