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## [April is Alcohol Awareness Month!](https://blog.theretreat.org/april-is-alcohol-awareness-month)

 \[fa icon="calendar'\] Apr 12, 2016 12:29:16 PM / by [Staff Blog](https://blog.theretreat.org/author/staff-blog) posted in [Alcoholics Anonymous](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcoholics-anonymous), [alcoholism](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcoholism), [Recovery](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/recovery), [alcohol abuse](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcohol-abuse), [Alcohol & Health](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcohol-health)

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The National Council of Alcohol and Drug Dependence founded Alcohol Awareness Month in 1987 in an effort to reduce the stigma widely associated with [alcoholism](https://blog.theretreat.org/helping-loved-ones-by-understanding-alcohol-addiction) by spreading information about alcohol, alcoholism, and recovery.  Each year, numerous groups around the country work to **break down barriers to treatment and [recovery](https://www.theretreat.org/)** to make the option of seeking help more readily available to those who suffer from this disease.

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## [I Am Who I Am and that Is More than Good Enough](https://blog.theretreat.org/i-am-who-i-am-and-that-is-more-than-good-enough)

 \[fa icon="calendar'\] Apr 5, 2016 12:30:00 PM / by [Dick Rice](https://blog.theretreat.org/author/dick-rice) posted in [Alcoholics Anonymous](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcoholics-anonymous), [Recovery](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/recovery), [12 steps of aa](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/12-steps-of-aa), [AA Big Book](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/aa-big-book), [12 Traditions Of AA](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/12-traditions-of-aa)

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Easter time –the great awakening for Christians –seems like a good time to reflect on the phrase “spiritual awakening” of the [12th step](https://blog.theretreat.org/having-had-a-spiritual-awakening-as-the-result-of-these-steps).  Christians believe that Easter is the answer to the questions:  Is this life all that there is?  Is death the end of life?  **For Christians, the resurrection of Jesus is the statement that there is a fullness of life waiting for us beyond death**.

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## [A Tale of Two Vacations](https://blog.theretreat.org/a-tale-of-two-vacations)

 \[fa icon="calendar'\] Mar 23, 2016 9:29:34 AM / by [John MacDougall](https://blog.theretreat.org/author/john-macdougall) posted in [Alcoholics Anonymous](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcoholics-anonymous), [alcoholism](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcoholism), [12 steps of aa](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/12-steps-of-aa), [Family Sober Support](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/family-sober-support), [Recovery Program](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/recovery-program)

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Sobriety makes everything different, but it takes more than just the passage of [sober days](https://blog.theretreat.org/forgiving-yourself-to-start-over-in-sobriety) to bring about change. The idea behind my book, “[Being Sober and Becoming Happy](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FI67GJY/)” is that first we take the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous to get our drinking to stop. Then, **if we keep taking those same Twelve Steps, in sobriety, and apply them to everything we do, we end up happy**. I’ve had enough time to try this theory out, and to measure the results. 

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## [Acceptance is the Key to All My Problems Today](https://blog.theretreat.org/acceptance-is-the-key-to-solving-all-my-problems-today)

 \[fa icon="calendar'\] Feb 24, 2016 9:32:10 AM / by [John MacDougall](https://blog.theretreat.org/author/john-macdougall) posted in [Alcoholics Anonymous](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcoholics-anonymous), [alcoholism](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcoholism), [Recovery](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/recovery), [12 steps of aa](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/12-steps-of-aa), [12 Traditions Of AA](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/12-traditions-of-aa)

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When I was drinking I was always angry about something. I just got off the phone with the new car dealer. I dropped off my new car to have a plastic sealer applied to it, because there wasn’t time to do it on Saturday when I bought it. The service manager called to say there was a tiny dent in the bottom of the door, which needed a paint touching up. He said I must have hit something with the door. I don’t think I did. I think the dent must have been there when I got the car and I just didn’t see it when I looked it over. 

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## [A New Year’s Resolution or A New Year’s Inventory](https://blog.theretreat.org/a-new-years-resolution-or-a-new-years-inventory)

 \[fa icon="calendar'\] Dec 31, 2015 10:30:00 AM / by [John MacDougall](https://blog.theretreat.org/author/john-macdougall) posted in [Alcoholics Anonymous](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcoholics-anonymous), [alcoholism](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcoholism), [12 steps of aa](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/12-steps-of-aa), [AA Big Book](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/aa-big-book), [Chemical Dependency](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/chemical-dependency)

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We alcoholics tend to look down on New Year's Eve as “amateur night.” We often stay off the highways, believing them to be filled with dangerous, untrained, drinkers who have no tolerance for alcohol. **We like to believe that when we drank and drove, we did it well.** There is a little bit of truth in this, because we did develop a tolerance for alcohol, but mostly it is what the Big Book calls “gutter bravado.” Our tolerance just allowed us to drink more, and we were just as foolish as anyone else.

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## [Abnormal Reactions to Abnormal Situations are Normal: Survival Scripts Kids Learn Growing Up with Addiction](https://blog.theretreat.org/abnormal-reactions-to-abnormal-situations-are-normal-survival-scripts-kids-learn-growing-up-with-addiction-in-their-homes)

 \[fa icon="calendar'\] Dec 16, 2015 1:30:00 AM / by [Mark Korman](https://blog.theretreat.org/author/mark-korman) posted in [Alcoholics Anonymous](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcoholics-anonymous), [family recovery](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/family-recovery), [alcoholism](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcoholism), [Family Sober Support](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/family-sober-support), [Chemical Dependency](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/chemical-dependency)

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Claudia Black, Ph.D. and national expert on the [Family Disease of Addictio](https://blog.theretreat.org/work-together-as-a-family-to-help-an-alcoholic-loved-one)n, contends that **most children in chemically dependent homes are often overlooked and underserved** by school counselors and family service agencies, and even the juvenile justice system. Why?

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## [“I was never that good at being that bad.”](https://blog.theretreat.org/i-was-never-that-good-at-being-that-bad)

 \[fa icon="calendar'\] Nov 25, 2015 1:17:18 PM / by [John MacDougall](https://blog.theretreat.org/author/john-macdougall) posted in [Alcoholics Anonymous](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcoholics-anonymous), [alcoholism](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcoholism), [Recovery](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/recovery), [AA meetings](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/aa-meetings), [Support Group](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/support-group)

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In the 1970’s and 1980’s, I attended open [AA meetings](https://www.theretreat.org/alumni-friends/calendar) for 13 years without figuring out that I was an alcoholic. This was odd, because I seemed to have a natural affinity for alcoholics and other addicts. As a pastor, I had conducted more interventions than anyone else in my town. Many evenings, I brought people to detox, and then sat up late at night learning about this disease. **I taught college and graduate school courses on addiction without figuring out that I was an alcoholic and addict.** I went to twelve step meetings because I really wanted to be with the people. My home group tolerated me well, because it was an open meeting. Occasionally  I’d  overhear someone whispering “He almost admitted it,” but I never did.

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## [The Tenth Step Revisited](https://blog.theretreat.org/the-tenth-step-revisited)

 \[fa icon="calendar'\] Oct 15, 2015 4:35:00 PM / by [Dick Rice](https://blog.theretreat.org/author/dick-rice) posted in [Alcoholics Anonymous](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcoholics-anonymous), [12 steps of aa](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/12-steps-of-aa), [AA Big Book](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/aa-big-book), [Recovery Program](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/recovery-program), [Drugs Adiction](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/drugs-adiction)

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Back in the early 1970’s, I had the opportunity to be summer pastor at a small church in Struble, Iowa, just north of LeMars.  There was little to no night life and I quickly became the gathering place for the adolescents of the town.  Night after night, as July gave way to August, they would appear, telling their tales of “walking the beans” or “walking the corn” that day.   As a city boy, I had no idea what they were talking about until they actually took me out to a field and invited me to “walk the beans’ with them.  I was amazed at the number and variety of weeds that were growing up with the crops.   I was also surprised at how quickly the work became tedious and taxing, necessary as it was.    

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## [Focusing on What Works - 12 Steps of AA & Abstinence](https://blog.theretreat.org/focusing-on-what-works-12-steps-of-aa-abstinence)

 \[fa icon="calendar'\] Oct 12, 2015 9:13:47 AM / by [Staff Blog](https://blog.theretreat.org/author/staff-blog) posted in [Alcoholics Anonymous](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcoholics-anonymous), [12 steps of aa](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/12-steps-of-aa), [AA Big Book](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/aa-big-book), [Recovery Program](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/recovery-program), [Drugs Adiction](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/drugs-adiction)

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The **12 step program** is a framework for confronting problems that involve addiction, alcoholism, and pressure. Sometimes referred to as spiritual methods, the [**Alcoholics Anonymous(AA) program**](https://www.theretreat.org/alumni-friends/calendar) was originally started due to a text that was published in 1939. The text, *Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism,* created the foundation that paved the way for the 12 step program of AA. Today this method is regarded as the **most successful practice of abstinence**. 

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## [Keeping the Twelve Steps at the Forefront during these times of Change in the Addiction Recovery Field.](https://blog.theretreat.org/keeping-the-twelve-steps-at-the-forefront-during-these-times-of-change-in-the-addiction-recovery-field)

 \[fa icon="calendar'\] Oct 1, 2015 2:31:30 PM / by [John Curtiss](https://blog.theretreat.org/author/john-curtiss) posted in [Alcoholics Anonymous](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcoholics-anonymous), [alcoholism](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/alcoholism), [Recovery Program](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/recovery-program), [Drugs Adiction](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/drugs-adiction), [Chemical Dependency](https://blog.theretreat.org/topic/chemical-dependency)

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