In this podcast, we answer the question “Is recovery from active alcoholism possible?”
We learn that:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
