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This is also an opportunity to work on an all-important issue in early recovery: personal boundaries.

Yet because the information is compiled by an outside firm, the program can trumpet ‘independently verified’ outcomes.

It’s difficult, perhaps impossible, for them to fully separate the behavior from the person. So in recovery, they may cling to resentments from the distant past.

Closure is a great aid to the process of recovery, as it allows you to shut the door to that part of your life and move forward to newer, better things.

He burned through more than a few sponsors before settling with an older gentlemen who’d gotten clean and sober following a career as a Baltimore drug thug and a stretch in state prison.

It’s a good question to put to a newcomer, in AA/NA or in therapy: “How much work are you willing to put into this process?”

When I first got into counseling, I had this sneaky feeling that it couldn’t possibly be that simple.

For many, because of compulsion, abstinence may turn out to be easier than re-establishing control.

It’s an unconscious process. Not an exercise of will; more like a reflex.

By the time the family gets around to taking action, conditions in the addict’s life have already reached the point where there’s a certain incentive to change.