The internal combustion engine of AA
AA meeting sign (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Service to others. Bill White posted earlier this week about the evidence base for the benefits of alcoholics helping other alcoholics. Now, National...
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Anna David has an interview with Earl Hightower that really gets at the informed consent issues I’ve been talking about here. AD: Should the parents just accept the first recommendation or should they...
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It just so happens that Dawn Farm is co-sponsoring a screening of the film next week. One Crafty Mother has a post responding to The Anonymous People. That last bullet point is the one I want to focus...
View ArticleThe adoption of 12-step practices and beliefs.
Evidence by billaday We’re seeing a growing body of research on the mechanisms of change in 12 step recovery. Tonigan and Greenfield recently published an article in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors....
View ArticleTribes of the recovering community
Yoga Class at a Gym Category:Gyms_and_Health_Clubs (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Yoga of 12-Step Recovery (Y12SR) thinks of itself as an adjunct to 12 step recovery. Founded in 2012, The Y12SR Foundation...
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This is the patch for the Arizona chapter of the Sober Riders. I remember getting sober and learning about the Sober Riders and Fifth Chapter. This recovery stuff was a whole new world, and I never...
View ArticleTribes of the Recovering Community
This week’s tribe is Millati Islami: Millati Islami is a fellowship of men and women, joined together on the “Path of Peace”. We share our experiences, strengths, and hopes while recovering from our...
View Article“narrative truth”
This reminded me of something from Bill White. At the heart of Perry’s argument — in line with neurologist Oliver Sacks’s recent meditation on memory and how “narrative truth,” rather than “historical...
View ArticleWhat good is religion?
AA meeting sign (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Sigfried Gold on what religion and 12 step fellowships get right: The work of self-transformation can be done through psychotherapy, religious practice,...
View ArticleMental Illness not a barrier to 12 step benefits
AA meeting sign (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A recently published study replicates findings that addicts with co-occurring mental illness benefit from twelve step facilitation: Background Evidence...
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