To this day, when it comes to my recovery, there’s nothing easy about surrendering. Everything in me fights it, and whatever I let go of usually has claw marks all over it. So why did I think it would be easy to let go of the character defects I’d clung to for so...

As a necessary step in my recovery from alcoholism, I shared my first honest self-appraisal with another human being in the presence of God and thought I was home free. I’d somehow mustered the courage to take that important step, but slowly figured out that what I...

I remember that day well. To put it simply, I was terrified. For the first time in my life, I’d taken an honest look at my character, and now I was getting ready to admit to the deep forms of selfishness that had been the chief activators of my drinking. This process...