Stigma & Shame I have a new sobriety date: October 26th, 2022. For years I have struggled with mental health and alcohol addiction and the stigma and shame of both. I wonder how many people like myself stayed away from 12-Step rooms or tried the 12-Step way but just couldn’t admit to themselves they are…
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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…