After Addiction Comes a Vacuum For many of us, the final stages of our addictive behavior found us unable to incorporate any real structure into our daily li...

What Is the Partner’s Plea? Many of us who have entered the rooms of recovery and accumulated some days and months of sobriety may often find ourselves bemoa...

Why We Need to Escape the Performance-Based Life to Recover I recently taught a class on 12-step spirituality for those who are not necessarily in recovery b...

Asking for Help I recently opened my iPhone and accidentally bumped the Siri button. Although she is generally trying to help me, Siri and I have a bit of a ...

As human beings, some of our most fundamental needs are to know and be known and love and be loved.  This is often referred to as part of our hierarchy of ne...

Paying the Price of Change Here is one of the ways I learned about the price of change. A couple of years ago, I hired a personal trainer to help me with the...

The Connection Between Resentment and Relapse When I first entered the rooms of twelve-step recovery it was an almost overwhelming experience for me. It was ...