Photographic Memory Exercises & Stress Relief

The best way to help an alcoholic is indirectly. This means that you should not attempt to control their behavior. Don’t attempt to convince them to just quit the booze. Do not threaten them or shame them or engage with angry arguments with them. None of these tactics work at all. At best these tactics [...]

Most people get confused when it comes to quitting drugs and alcohol, because they see it as a process of elimination. They think that the primary focus is on eliminating drug use and then on avoiding all of those triggers and urges that might pop up in our lives that might make us relapse.
If [...]

Living a sober life - this actually has very little to do with the idea of not drinking. Of course, when you are sober you are not going to be drinking alcohol. But for most any real alcoholic, how can they ever sustain this method of living if in actuality they are yearning to be [...]

If you or someone you know needs help with alcoholism then you might want to consider taking action. So what is the ideal action to take? In my opinion the ideal siutation is for the struggling alcoholic to find a rehab center that has a professional detox area and get checked in. This is the [...]

How can a person really help a struggling alcoholic to get well? Historically, recovery programs have attempted to answer this question but without a lot of success at it. You might have tried to get someone to sober up that you knew but had a hard time with it. If it has come to this [...]

Beating alcohol addiction is a process that occurs in 2 stages. Early recovery and long term sobriety (the rest of your life) are the stages that make up your recovery journey.
The first part of recovery is the initial shocking experience of sobriety where you are overwhelmed because you are suddenly sober and no longer [...]