“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”- Anne Bradstreet. When most of us think about spring, we think about flowers and rebirth and sunshine and new beginnings. A promise of hope dangles in front ... Read More
Why Hope Always Matters in Sobriety
When I first began working in the addiction field, sobriety almost seemed like this mathematical formula. We had withdrawal timelines, psychiatric diagnoses, length of treatment episodes, and insurance authorizations. It seemed like a perfect equation for explaining the calamity taking our ... Read More
Why Hope Always Matters in Sobriety
When I first began working in the addiction field, sobriety almost seemed like this mathematical formula. We had withdrawal timelines, psychiatric diagnoses, length of treatment episodes, and insurance authorizations. It seemed like a perfect equation for explaining the calamity taking our ... Read More
Can I Still Drink Around My Sober Partner?
He shifted uncomfortably in his seat, avoiding eye contact with his wife, the woman sitting less than a foot away from him, holding sixty days of sobriety after a multi-year spree of frenzied alcohol-induced chaos. It was our first couples therapy session. They had both cried and pointed fingers at ... Read More