How to Get Rid of Worries About Your Alcoholic

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Years ago when I was the clergy for a small congregation an adolescent got off the school bus and ran to our home with heart wrenching sobs.

“She’s dead, she’s dead”. Immediately the concern was someone in her family had died.

The truth was Click to continue…

Positive Self Talk Your Alcoholic Can’t Touch

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I worked with a lady who had the most remarkable perspective on how to handle when others tried to put her down.

She would simply say to herself, “Just because they call me a purple polka dotted giraffe it doesn’t make me one”. Click to continue…

Warning:Recovery Essentials Exposed

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The million dollar question is what’s it going to take to get my alcoholic into recovery.

Probably the better thing to ask is what’s it going to take for recovery to really work.

Many alcoholics say they want recovery and I believe their intentions are good. What happens is the necessary elements to a genuine recovery are often absent.

The result is relapse…maybe even several times. For this reason you need to know what’s essential to recovery for your alcoholic. Click to continue…

Don’t Do These 5 Things When You Confront Your Alcoholic

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I’m sure if you’ve lived with an alcoholic for any length of time there’s been a confrontation or two.

Did you get the results you’d hoped for or was there more you’d expected?

Here are a few things to consider before the next confrontation with your alcoholic. Click to continue…

I’m Angry…He’s Drunk

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Do you have times your so tired of being angry you just deny it’s there at all?

Your alcoholic goes on his merry way drinking and drunk while you’re left to wrestle with the intense anger over the situation.

It seems the more you say the worse it gets. Every so often there’s a little hope thrown in just to make it hurt a little more and produce even more anger. Click to continue…

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