Keys To Recovery Interview
I was delighted to be asked and honored to take part in one of the excellent “The Hope Interviews” with Steve Jones for the recovery newspaper “Keys to Recovey”
How God Helps With Our Emotions
Part 1 Two of the the main reasons we remain in recovery are via a trust in God and via a dramatic improvement in our ability to process and manage our emotions. We often share our negative emotions with our sponsors which often leads to resolving emotional issues […]
Explaining Loss Of Control over Drinking
Although loss of control over drinking is central to anecdotal accounts of alcoholics’ impaired ability to control their drinking once they have started or to stay stopped from drinking for intended periods of time as this excellent review suggests “Impaired control, defined as “a breakdown of an […]
The Motivational Voice Of Alcoholism
Alcoholism, not alcoholwasm I am moved to write this blog and to continue writing about Alcoholism in general due to a newspaper article I read in the last few months by the writer, Tanya Gold, a recovering alcoholic with 15 years recovery. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tanyagold I was inspired […]
If Addiction is Learning Then Distress Is The Teacher.
In a recent “interview” in The Guardian newspaper Marc Lewis once again forwarded his ideas that addiction is not a disease but a condition of aberrant learning. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jul/24/is-addiction-really-a-disease?CMP=share_btn_fb His ideas are laid out in more detail in his book The Biology of Desire – a book I have […]
Nearly Everything Hari thinks He Knows About Addiction is Wrong!
The Rat Park of Vietnam and Beyond The videos below have been doing the facebook and twitter rounds, often accompanied by this Ted talk by Johann Hari Essentially these videos suggest addiction is caused solely by environment. The idea that addiction is caused solely by […]
The Power of Prayer?
Personal prayer buffers self-control depletion Abstract The strength model of self-control has inspired large amounts of research and contributed to a deeper understanding of the temporal dynamics underlying self-control. Several studies have identified factors that can counteract self-control depletion, but relatively little is known about factors that can […]
The role of emotion processing deficits in alcohol dependence and relapse.
This study looks at an area close to our research hearts. The role of emotion processing deficits in alcohol dependence and relapse. It is a good overview of some of the literature. The underlying mechanism which prompts relapse is not unearthed in this study. You may have to […]
Insecure Attachment Styles and Lack of Emotion Regulation Prompt Defense Mechanisms?
In Recovery circles and groups we are often struck by the common use of ego defense mechanisms in negotiating social interactions. We have often queried why such a common use of these maladaptive means of regulating one’s emotions and one’s self, if you like, when interacting with others? […]
Inside an anonymous support group for the children of alcoholics
Here we simply post this ineresting insghit into Alateen it was posted on the BBC website By Declan Harvey Newsbeat reporter “Newsbeat has been given rare access to an anonymous support group, Alateen, for children with alcoholic parents. Self consciousness, feeling alone and feeling different are what’s […]
Inside The Alcoholic Brain 
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