Video: Tips for a Safe and Sober Holiday Season
Swing by a coffee shop on the way to your holiday parties. This way, when you walk in, you’re holding a nice warm cup of coffee and nobody offers you a drink.
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Video: Ten Party Moments Only Sober People Understand
We’ve all been there in one fashion or another, haven’t we? A humourous look at when the shoe is on the other foot. Happy Holidays and have a safe, happy holiday season!
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Perspective: It Really is a Wonderful Life
There are new faces, but it’s the same gleaming oak bar, maybe even the same comfy stools. Just one – after five years of sobriety and the month he’s had, surely just one drink … it’s the holidays, after all. One mug of cheer to lift the spirits …
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Video: Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas?
This classic Christmas song from 1984 – one of the first music fundraisers for those in need – is a timely reminder that the best Christmas gift we can receive is through looking outside of ourselves and helping others. Who needs your help this holiday season?
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Perspective: Sobriety Under All Conditions
Here it was early April and I was worried about Christmas that year – and I was just 10 days sober. I was asking myself: What was I thinking when I made the decision to quit drinking? Was I in my right mind, could/would I stick to that commitment? Was my drinking really that bad? Entertaining these questions, I honestly felt I had gone insane.
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Video: 6 Tips For Coping With Holiday Pressures in Recovery
The holiday season typically brings with it both causes to celebrate and reasons to feel pressured ― laying out a minefield of triggers for people with substance abuse problems. So here are some simple guidelines and suggestions to help you navigate this challenging time of the year.
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Alumni Perspective: All Bets Are Off!
Today my life is truly a miracle. I am so humbly grateful, and I am really great. I attend at least four meetings a week. I have been taught that the successful people in AA., who stay sober, attend regular meetings. I practice the principle “live and let live”. I am one of the lucky ones that “get it”
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Learning the “Attitude of Gratitude” for the Holidays
It is easy to lose sight of our spiritual grounding in the glitter and commercialism of the holidays. Viewing each day as God-filled and thinking “holy days” instead of “holidays” could keep us better connected to our Higher Power when we most need that connection.
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Alumni Perspective: Welcome Home
In my mind and in my heart, I had a deep-down good feeling about myself for the first time in a long time. It was a wonderful feeling of well-being. Of new possibilities. I felt that I was, finally, out from under that endless, relentless craving that had been running — and ruining — my life for the past 10 to 12 years.
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Video: Hallelujah Flash Mob
Our collective voices ring out when we speak up and share our stories. We are in harmony with with our fellows when we sing our truths on high!
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