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...

My road to recovery from alcoholism has taught me many things, and one of the first was that I had to develop a degree of honesty, open-mindedness, and willingness that I’d never had before. You see, I had to look at what caused me to drink, even when I desperately...