In the spring of 2012, I attended a meeting in which the topic was gratitude. I was not sober at the time, nor engaged in…
What are the facts? When is the last time in the midst of an emotional crisis you stopped to ponder the question, “What are the…
BRC Recovery For many years, I bought into the delusion that if I wanted to stop using, I would. “I just don’t want to,” was…
My struggle with alcoholism and drug addiction My struggle with alcoholism and drug addiction began at the age of twelve years old. I have experienced…
BRC Recovery’s Bringing Real Change To some it may seem that moving back home to the Northeast in the midst of a heroin pandemic was…
Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous Appropriately titled The Family Afterward, the ninth chapter in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous begins to answer the first…
Before arriving at BRC Before arriving at BRC I was a broken man. Struggling in life, jobless, penniless, drowning in alcohol, drugs, and misery, a shell of…
BRC Recovery My name is Caroline H., and I am a Recovery Coach with the Women’s Segue Program of BRC Recovery. During my active alcoholism…
My Life Looked Like Four Years Ago I vividly remember what my life looked like four years ago. My family and I were in Playa…
Three years ago Three years ago, as I sat alone paralyzed by fear on yet another seedy motel bathroom floor, I was wondering why I…