Alcoholism affects everyone – one way or another, across all ‘lines’ we draw to distinguish each other.

Fortunately more and more people are getting a clue on the disease of addiction and how to achieve sobriety, how to help one another and how to reduce the harm we inflict on one another.

Guest House is an entirely lay run charity that’s been helping clergy and religious return to sobriety for 54 years – and from the beginning we’ve provided care of at least 90 days, regardless of the ability of the person to pay for it. The long term care and follow up, the personalized care etc. has given our clients lifetime sobriety rates of 75%.

There is no ‘full recovery’ or ‘cure’. But sobriety can be achieved and lived for the remainder of your life. So there’s always hope.

I agree that arguing about semantics can make recovery ridiculous at times. I mean, who really cares as long as we are making progress and living clean?

My old sponsor would argue that it matters to some people, because the language that we use out loud can infect our thinking patterns, which may affect our actions. Seems like a stretch to me though.

Anyway, I have a proposition for you. Shoot me an email and I can show you what it is in more detail. I love your blog and I think you are one of the “realest” recovery bloggers out there. Kudos to you for your excellent work on this site.

Please keep blogging!

Sorry for the late response, I’ve been traveling abroad and my internet access has been somewhat spotty. Reading from your comment history it seems you have chosen to come more to be a nuisance rather than honestly discuss recovery issues, so even though it seems to me you are wasting my time I will answer anyway with a semi-rhetorical question of my own that seems rather fitting for this discussion.

I consider my recovery a continuous process of improvement, there is no end goal nor should there be when it comes the the quality of one’s life- why stop trying to be better, content, happy? You seem to have been “living” for a while yet you spend your evenings trolling recovery blogs leaving strings of inane comments. Does this behavior constitute a plateau or perhaps even a lifestyle crisis, maybe you should quit pondering the semantics of “recovering” and instead concentrate on how you define “living”?

(Why come to a recovery blog to be snarky, you got a problem? Maybe a drinking problem?)

The Big Book promises tyou will recover.
it tells us ”we have recovered and been given the power to help others”

Trev.
Australia.