By Diane Cameron, author of Out of the Woods: A Woman’s Guide to Long-term Recovery When we were young in recovery, we looked to the old-timers with awe. “She’s got 35 years.” “He’s got 40 years.” We’d listen when they spoke, and we’d...
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By Diane Cameron “Form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we...
Read more“Out of the Woods” is about long-term recovery of all kinds. The book addresses people recovering from alcoholism, drug addiction, food and eating addictions—(including the near cousin: exercise addiction), and the behavioral addictions like...
Read moreIn Step Three we turn our lives over to something that is bigger than us–something that we don’t control. For some of us that might be a pretty traditional god—an anthropomorphized “He”, and for others the Higher Power is an “it” or an...
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