After decades of recovery, I didn’t expect them to show up all at once. But they did. And soon I realized they’d brought others along. I was approaching my 35th year of sobriety and was actually looking forward to it. Somehow, every five years or so, it feels like I...

It was hard to watch my friend self-destruct. He’d been in recovery for so long. He’d been so successful, so happy. He’d even been named employee of the year at work. But now he was spinning out of control. Forgetting that resentment is poison for alcoholics, he had...

Many years ago, I heard about “emotional sobriety” and wondered if I would ever experience it. As someone new to recovery, I believed that emotional sobriety came only with age, experience, and a lot of hard work—something that seemed far out of reach, as I was...