Eight Daily Practices for Recovery – by Christine Beck
I believe that alcoholism is a family disease. My father was an alcoholic, one of those unfortunates who never found recovery and died destitute and homeless at the age of 50. I swore I’d never become an alcoholic, but at the age of 50 myself, my two glasses of wine had become 4 or 5 and I wanted to “cut back.” I tried. I couldn’t. I also swore I’d never marry an alcoholic, but I did. When I found the Laundry List of Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA), I learned adult children marry alcoholics or become alcoholic. That’s what we do. Not “bad or wrong;” it just “comes with the package.” So today I need three twelve-step programs to keep me sober and sane. At the risk of being over-simplistic, I can summarize the three programs this way. AA taught me that alcohol was not my “problem.” It was my… Continue reading
