Personal Development – Year One Of Living An Alcohol Free Life

February 18th, 2020 I stopped drinking alcohol. March 15th, 2021 – Reflections Of Year One As I sit here, sipping my morning coffee, I think back over my first year of living alcohol free. There were many, many times I wanted to drink. Taking CBD for anxiety, helped reduce my cravings. Attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings…

Twelve-Step Meetings and the Twelve-Step Program -An Emotional and Spiritual Education in Becoming Fully Human

I find myself thinking about the rooms of AA.  Many years ago I spent some time there, enough to earn my five year sobriety medallion. What always amazed me was the social contrast of those sitting there with me and the similarity of our pain.  I was a naive young woman from a religious, upper-middle…