Holidays can be stressful days for some addicts.  Memories of past holidays may come to mind.  These memories may be before the addict became addicted.  Childhood holiday experiences which include relatives are prevalent.  In our addiction we may have become estranged from the family pictured in the memory.  Loved ones may have loved ones may

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Today we are going to talk about gluttony.  Rightly so gluttony is usually used when talking about food.  But we as alcoholic/addicts can apply this term to lot of other behaviors and defects of character.  Google defines gluttony as “overindulgence or lack of self-restraint.”  Surely, we can see how this would apply to alcoholics and

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I recently had an experience that I found very insightful and perplexing at the same time.  I was having lunch with a friend, and they asked me “what if you fall off the wagon?” I was stunned!  I realized that this person had no idea of how Alcoholics Anonymous’ 12 step program worked.  We had

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In the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous there is only one short paragraph regarding step 7.  It contains the prayer we say for the removal of our defects of character. There is some tricky language here as the prayer states that we pray for removal of “defects of character which stand in the way of

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Step 2 reads as follows: “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” The implication here is that we come to believe.  We don’t have to know, figure things out, go anywhere or do anything in particular.  We just have to mentally agree that there is something outside of

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