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Is Recovery From Active Alcoholism Possible?

Published: Sept. 9, 2022, 8 a.m.

In this podcast, we answer the question \u201cIs recovery from active alcoholism possible?\u201d

We learn that:

  1. There is little, if any, doubt that recovery from even the most profound state of addiction or alcoholism is not only possible, but probable given certain conditions.
  2. The best way to look at relapse prevention, given that relapse is what families fear most, is to learn that a change in thinking is at the heart of recovery.
  3. The thinking changes from the inability to deal with life events and emotions without drugs or alcohol to learning how to embrace life and emotions exactly as they are presented.
  4. Commitment separates those who make it and those who relapse. Commitment means action based on the principles of honesty, sacrifice, and giving, as opposed to using and taking selfishly.
  5. What at first seemed like just a way to get clean and sober, recovery comes to mean a new world of opportunity in which one flourishes as a complete human being.