This is What Dating an Alcoholic is...

Apr 21, 2016
My attraction to addicts is uncanny—I joke that I can find a room filled with 100 people and instantly be...

10 Things You Don’t Know About Rehab

The anxiety of going to rehab was always bigger than the anxiety of not going, but maybe knowing what to...

Envy Will Impede our Recovery

Apr 11, 2016
If left unchecked, envy can become the perfect excuse to gravitate towards my drug of choice. “The spirit of envy...

Al-Anon—Your Guide to Emotional Sobriety

In AA the substances are alcohol or drugs. In Al-Anon, the substances are people, places and situations. According to al-anon.org, Al-Anon...

11 Not So Great Movies That Got...

My first year sober was a mess. But these movies helped me, moved me, and stayed with me. Movies were...

TV’s quiet 12-step revolution: Prestige comedies are...

Apr 04, 2016
On "Flaked," "Love" and "Girls," sobriety is one path characters try to figure out who they are and what they...

Opioid abuse has death grip on Tennessee

NASHVILLE — The pregame pills took some of the pain outof Will Bell's hard-hitting high school football games — but it wasn't the linebacker's...

10 Things Sobriety Is Not

Mar 31, 2016
We often think sobriety is the end of the world, that our lives are over, and we’ll never have fun...

Protected by Denial—My Journey To AA

I saw people get their heads shook, their freedom took, and their names in the undertaker’s book and I was...

The Power of Praying for Others

It wasn’t that I didn’t want all of these other people I knew to be successful; it was that their...