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A Recovery Story: My Life Is Ahead Of Me

The Stories of fellow alcoholics are the fresh minted coins of survival. You pass yours to the next person in the hope he or she will see a gleam of…

Old Ideas and Stories

More and more I see that getting help, being healthier, having greater joy begins with giving up an old idea. Some old ideas: That I can seek to regain the…

A Recovery Story: Overcoming Barriers of Culture and Fear

Denial is a big part of addiction. The step from denial into recovery is a huge one, and for women lawyers it is very large indeed. As a young associate…

Re-attachment via Detachment

It was good to hear that many of you enjoyed the article on time. (Campbell Law Observer, Vol.l9, No.7, September, 1998). Your comments suggested I should try to dig a…

Recognizing Denial

We all struggle with denial. Denial is part of being human. It affects everything we do, the way we think, what we believe, and how we perceive our world. Denial…

Relationship Intensity Syndrome

One of the great tragedies of alcoholism is the effect it has on so many others, particularly children. Children growing up in an alcoholic family are apt to suffer from…

Seeking the High Ground

“Man is nourished by that which is beyond the personal. He dies from preferring their opposites.” These are the concluding two sentences of Jacques Lusseyran’s book Against the Pollution of the…

Service, Character, and Recovery

In a healthy individual there are at least three stages one goes through in which service work is important to develop the personality. The first stage is the idealistic stage.…

Sexual Addiction

“Getting involved sexually with a man at work was like picking up a drink for me. I descended into a fog. When I was sexually acting out, I was oblivious…

Suicide – A Misunderstood Tragedy

These articles are written by the family members of Mississippi lawyers lost to suicide. But for the Grace of God these stories could be about anyone of us affected with…

The Addictive Personality and the Legal Profession

One of the questions I get asked over and over in meetings with local bars across the state is, “Are lawyers really that much more likely to become alcoholics or…

The Chemistry of Alcoholism and Other Addictions

Alcoholism is a brain disease. Brain research in the past several years has taught us much more than we have ever known before about the mechanics of how alcoholism affects…