Browsing all posts in December, 2009.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-19

Time goes by wheter you are doing the right thing or not – what differs is where you are when you come out the other side # Going away for Christmas? Planning on visiting crazy family? Prepare in advance! Have a plan! Make sure you aren't alone in the insanity. # Powered by Twitter Tools

Arrogance – A Barrier to Recovery, Fuel for Denial

Maybe you’ve heard this story of Roger Avary, who was sentenced in September for a drunk driving crash that killed a passenger in his car and injured his wife. He was sentence to a year in jail and five years of probation.

Remembering Consequences of Drinking and Drugging

I have a good friend who is an immigration attorney. She was recently telling me about how recent immigrants or people applying to emigrate to the United States are very shocked when they learn past drug charges might make them ineligible to become permanent residents – sometimes they can’t even come into the United States [...]

Acting without Thinking

One luxury we don’t have in recovery is to act without thinking – because what we do impacts how we feel, and how we feel is critical to long-term recovery.  If we do things that make us feel ashamed, it puts us at risk of going back to that place of self-loathing so common during [...]

Duh – Coffee Doesn’t Make You Sober

A new study out of Temple University showed that drinking coffee to “sober up” can actually be more harmful because it makes you more alert, yet still drunk. “The myth about coffee’s sobering powers is particularly important to debunk because the co-use of caffeine and alcohol could actually lead to poor decisions with disastrous outcomes,” [...]