Listen to the stories men tell about their drinking careers throughout the course of their sobriety and you’ll hear one thing in particular change: the development of their alcoholism. Most men come to realize that their alcoholism, meaning their alcoholic … Read More
Make Sobriety The Love Of Your Life
Many men in recovery have described their substance of choice as a love of their life. While people in recovery can go through a certain grieving process to mourn the loss of drugs or alcohol in their life, men have … Read More
Does Drinking Make You Want To Drink More?
Men who have suffered from alcoholism are aware of an interesting fact regarding their drinking behaviors when it comes to getting drunk. It isn’t the fifth, sixth, eighteenth, or twenty-third drink which gets them drunk. The alcoholic inability to physically … Read More
College Alcoholism Is Increasing: What Statistics Show Us
Binge drinking culture in college is nothing new. All one has to do is revisit the film Animal House to be reminded that partying, drinking too much, and academic pursuits often go hand in hand. College towns seem to be … Read More
Using Dreams Happen
Using dreams are one of the more strange phenomena which come along with addiction recovery. However, when explained, they make sense. Someone who is recovering from drug and alcohol addiction and is maintaining their sobriety will have a dream about … Read More
Will You Be Defined By The Past Or The Present?
Stand up straight and hold your arms out to your sides, like you are making a “T”. Now, imagine that the past is on your left hand side. Clutch your hand tight to symbolize the stronghold you keep on the … Read More
The Risk Of Isolation After Treatment
Treatment is quite the shared experience. Everyone who comes to treatment has reached some low point of suffering and struggle in their lives and made the decision to seek help to change things around. During treatment emotions are raw, energy … Read More
Growing With Others: Having And Being A Role Model
“I could never be like him” is something most men in early recovery have said out loud while looking, defeatedly, at someone they admire. At the beginning of the recovery journey, any other stage of recovery seems next to impossible … Read More