by Carole Fontaine
Have you ever noticed how a big sigh can make you feel a bit better when you’re stressed? Or how taking slow breaths can calm you down? Breathing is a secret tool we all have to help us ease our...
In partnership with Stephen Andrew
Connection is the tie that binds us, makes us human, and helps us heal. Our connections with others - the friends we lean on, the loved ones we confide in, and the supportive communities we are part of...
A question that’s been posed to people in recovery for many decades now is this daring call to action, “Are you willing to go to any lengths?”
Any lengths?
Some of us come into recovery pretty ambivalent, some come rushing or...
Alison Jones Webb on the Writing of Recovery Allies
Books have a life of their own and they birth at the moment they’re ready.
— Alison Jones Webb
Ideally, books come along at the time that we, the...
A Playwright’s Reckoning with the Destructive Roots of Addiction
How do you confront a disease as sneaky and destructive as addiction? How do you kill a whale as fierce and murderous as Moby Dick?
Those are the words I used to describe...
BUTTKICKERS: Twenty Ways to Leave Tobacco
If you want to stop using tobacco, this book might be the ticket for you. BUTTKICKERS urges readers to dig deeper than traditional tobacco cessation strategies – like setting quit dates, avoiding triggers and using...
