Making change in recovery confounded me. Growing up, I heard a variation of Aristotle’s adage, “Give me a child until he is 7, and I will show you the man.” At my first 12-step meeting, I received a ...

September is Recovery Awareness Month, a time to celebrate those in recovery and the communities that support them. The author began their recovery journey on Feb. 1, 2020, after an intervention from ...

It's only when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the fear of change that change occurs. –12-step saying Change is hard. And the larger the change, the more difficult and intimidating ...