Beyond Rehab

Discovering Hidden Pain or Trauma Does Not Come First

I read the following on a recovery site’s “treatment plan” web page -

“Until someone can assist us with discovering our hidden pain or trauma and formulate a treatment program to heal those areas, it is most likely that we will continue abusing substances to self-medicate the underlying condition.”

Baloney. That is precisely the approach that… read more

A.A.’s Founder Wasn’t a Chick

“Bill Wilson’s Imagination, determination, and creativity in putting together the twelve step program that worked for him and many others does not change the fact that he was influenced by white, male class Christian values of the 1930’s…  read more

Alcoholic Is as Alcoholic Does

I never call myself an alcoholic—not in the present tense. I am discovering amazing qualities about myself that perhaps I might have discovered at a younger age had I chosen not to drink myself into oblivion every night and year after year. But even then I was much more than alcoholic… read more