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How to stay sober during the holidays
How to stay sober during the holidays
Kristin Muhlner
November 22, 2024
Holiday time is often called “prime time” by the sober community. Starting with the Thanksgiving holiday and running through New Years, the season is full of both triggers and pressures to drink or use drugs. How can someone in recovery stay sober during the holidays? How can someone moderate their drinking if it’s becoming a…
Virtual, Online, and Telephone AA & NA Meetings
Virtual, Online, and Telephone AA & NA Meetings
Kristin Muhlner
November 22, 2023
Twelve-step meetings online give you a recovery community, Affect puts a licensed addiction treatment program in your pocket. It’s an unbeatable combination for beating addictions to alcohol and drugs, and you don’t have to go to a clinic or a meeting. It all comes right to you. What is Alcoholics Anonymous recovery program? started in the 1930s, AA’s peer-support model…
Kristin Muhlner
November 21, 2023
Finding thanks for addiction in recovery If you go to an AA meeting, you’ll inevitably hear an old-timer introduce themselves as a “grateful recovering alcoholic.” How can someone be thankful that they’re an alcoholic and addict? It’s because they didn’t just achieve sobriety, they found recovery. People in recovery aren’t just grateful that they’ve stopped drinking and using,…
Saying “I need a drink” is a red flag for alcohol use
Saying “I need a drink” is a red flag for alcohol use
Kristin Muhlner
June 16, 2023
The simple sentence “I need a drink” is one of the biggest red flags of alcohol use disorder. It means one of two things: you need a drink to cope with something, or you need a drink because you don’t feel right without it. If you say it, take a pause and think about what you mean with intention and self honesty.