If you’ve ever tried to stay on a diet during Easter or Halloween, or had to suffer through a Valentine’s Day when there was no romance in your life, you know how hard it can be to go going against the flow of a holiday.   Consider how your alcoholic feels at this time of the [...]

Have you ever played the game “Traffic”?  It starts with a configuration of various sized cars within a small grid, blocking the exit to one small special car.  The object of the game is to move the cars around until you can get the special car out of the parking lot.  It’s not easy, and [...]

 “Mirror moments” are those times when the alcoholic in your life says something to you which they really mean for themselves.  Ideally, they’d hold a mirror and say those things to the right person, but don’t have the courage or honesty to go there yet.    Realizing they are mirror moments in the first step [...]