November 2010
Welcome to the first A
Recovery Journey Newsletter. Each monthly issue will be
devoted to a
specific topic related to personal growth and recovery. It will also
contain a link to a free ebooklet related
to the topic of the month and an introduction to three
ebooks offered at A
Recovery Journey.
On a personal note, over the years I have been in recovery, I have come to realize how being present to my family continues to represent a major shift from my active addiction days. I no longer live in the underground world of addiction that took me away from my family on so many different levels. Today, I am here when they are in need. I listen when they need a shoulder to cry on. I am not afraid to take action on their behalf.
On your own journey, whether you are in recovery or have a family member in active addiction, you have undoubtedly experienced many of the family traumas related to addiction. How are you dealing with these traumas? Do you have a network of others to support you? Have you tried one of these support groups, even as an observer: AA, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Narcotics Anonymous, Alanon?
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This Month's Theme - The Family
No one in a recovery program escapes the damage that we have done to our families, both directly and collaterally. Some of us may continue to live at home in a family where alcohol and/or drugs are abused, and we all know the damaging effects of that abuse: physical/emotional violence; invisibility; grandiosity; desire for perfection; feelings of inferiority or unworthiness; lack of trust; and an inability to form long-lasting, intimate relationships.On a personal note, over the years I have been in recovery, I have come to realize how being present to my family continues to represent a major shift from my active addiction days. I no longer live in the underground world of addiction that took me away from my family on so many different levels. Today, I am here when they are in need. I listen when they need a shoulder to cry on. I am not afraid to take action on their behalf.
On your own journey, whether you are in recovery or have a family member in active addiction, you have undoubtedly experienced many of the family traumas related to addiction. How are you dealing with these traumas? Do you have a network of others to support you? Have you tried one of these support groups, even as an observer: AA, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Narcotics Anonymous, Alanon?
Ebooklet - Family
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"Some of us tried to make our own marriages and families make up for the family life we didn’t have when we were growing up." |
Book - A Recovery Journey
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A Recovery Journey
is about one man's spiritual, intellectual, and emotional journey. It
is not just a memoir of the author's recovery from alcohol; it presents
a broad synthesis of every aspect of his transformations, insights,
values, and behavior changes from the first moment of
surrender to the knowledge of his addiction ...
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John T Marohn
John T. Marohn is a retired college teacher, a freelance writer, novelist, poet, socio-political commentator, international film critic, and recovering alcoholic. John currently lives in Buffalo, New York.His other sites include:
- Tiorunda Stories - a regional novel set in the fifties.
- International Film Studies - learn and experience other cultures through popular foreign films.
- Against the Grain - a blog on non-mainstream observations.
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