“Palcohol is powdered alcohol” reads the Palcohol brand’s website. “A revolutionary new product!” The threat of powdered alcohol is not new. More than two years ago, powdered alcohol made headlines after receiving approval from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and … Read More
Spiritual Development and Masculinity
Living as a human of any gender on planet earth is a challenge. Life is full of ups and downs, celebrations and disappointments, great achievements and devastating losses. Coping with all the variations life has to offer is a challenge. … Read More
What We Can Learn From Flowers As Men
As February comes to a close, many of us hope that the blistering cold, snowy conditions of winter are coming to a close as well. March is right around the corner giving the advanced warnings of spring in Portland, AKA … Read More
Relapse Warning Signs: The Obvious, The Unobvious, And The PAWS
Many have described relapse as being a single moment, quick as a flash, where good judgment is swiftly replaced by bad decision making. Others have said that they knew relapse was coming for many weeks or even months before it … Read More
Sometimes you Need to be Bored
Active men living an active program of recovery, live lives that are on the move. After working hard through months of treatment, men have learned how to manifest their potential in their mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical form. They are … Read More
How Do You Respond To Drink Offers? It Says A Lot About You
Holiday seasons are full of parties and events, celebrations and festivities. At most of these gatherings, we can expect there to be alcohol. Men who are in their first year of recovery might find themselves challenged by the amount of … Read More
Feeling and Using Healthy Fear
Could we trace the first moment we became afraid? As individuals we might be able to remember the first time we really felt fear, anxiety, panic, horror, or terror. We can see it in our mind’s eye and even if … Read More
Your Body Is a Machine. Machines Don’t Run on Garbage
The Law of Conservation of Energy is the first law of thermodynamics. It states that energy must remain constant in an isolated system and is conserved as time passes and that it can neither be created nor destroyed. Instead, energy … Read More
How Stress Affects Men
Stress is a natural part of life. Our bodies produce stress hormones in order to feel and combat stress. We feel stressed because it is part of our survival instinct. Our fight-or-flight response is a stress response that empowers us … Read More
Working Together to Stay Sober
Trust falls have merit. Who can you trust when your life is starting to feel like it’s falling apart again? It’s an experience only men who have struggled with addiction and gone to treatment to recover can understand. The peculiar … Read More