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Category Archives: Intervention
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures
I’ve been worried about myself. My weight continues to creep up. I’ve been drinking two to four glasses of wine (or gin and tonics) nearly every evening. Sometimes more on the weekends. Walking, yoga, and meditation have been sporadic. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Abusive Relationships, Addiction, Alcoholism, Alzheimer's, Birds, Body Love, Death and Grief, Dementia, Depression, Domestic Violence, Elderly Parents, Family Business, Getting Unstuck, Healing, Health, Intervention, Lawyer, Living Life, Meditation/Mindfulness, Mid-Life, Nature, Photography, Sobriety, walking
Tagged 100-Day Sober Challenge, Abusive Relationships, Alcoholism, Birds, Death, Death and Grief, Death of a sibling, Depression, Grief, HAES, Health, Health At Every Size, healthy-living, Lightroom, mental-health, Narcissism, Narcissist, nature, Nikon, Nikon D3200, outdoors, Photography, Sobriety
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On Coping. Or Not.
I’m on a flight to Chicago. It’s an all weekend work rah-rah session. That means 48 hours with hundreds of lawyers. Lawyers drinking, bullshitting, and pontificating. Each one playing the power role, trying to impress. Needless to say, I’m not … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, Death and Grief, Intervention, Leukemia, Running, Sobriety, walking
Tagged Addiction, Alcoholism, cancer, Coping, Coping mechanism, Death and Grief, Death of a sibling, Depression, exercise, Grief, Grieving, Health, healthy-living, Intervention, leukemia, mental-health, outdoors, Running, Sobriety, Stages of Grief, Walking
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Ramble On
All of my male family members are gone. In the space of 11 months. How do I make sense of this? I don’t. There is no meaning or explanation. Everything does not happen for a reason. It just happens. This … Continue reading
Posted in Alcoholism, Cancer, Cats, Death of a sibling, Grief, Health, Intervention, Mid-Life, Sobriety, Stages of Grief
Tagged Acute myelogenous leukemia, Acute myeloid leukemia, Alcoholism, AML, cancer, Death, Death of a sibling, Grief, Grieving, Health, Intervention, leukemia, Philosophy, Stages of Grief
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Discourage
Discourage 1. to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit My eldest brother died last year in April of complications from alcoholism. Almost a year ago, now. My father died in October. On December 28, 2012, not wanting to … Continue reading
Am I an alcoholic?
I’ve heard it said, you don’t ask the question unless you are. I’ve asked the question many times in my life. It seemed the prudent thing to do. The answer was always no. But simply asking the question often led … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, Codependency, Cooking, Diet, Health, Intervention, Weight Loss, Wine
Tagged Alcohol, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, binge drink, binge drinker, Coping mechanism, Hangover, Health, healthy-living, mental-health
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Inspired By My Brother
Last night we had an open house at my office. Open house. Open bar. I had several glasses of wine. When I drink now, I feel guilty. Toward the end of the evening, one of my co-workers and I went … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, Cats, Healing, Health, Intervention, Motivation
Tagged Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cats, Coping (psychology), Dry Drunk, Health, mental-health, Physical therapy, Sibling
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My Favorite Brother
I’ve been thinking a lot about my brother. Not the one who entered rehab Friday (of course, I’m thinking about him, too), but my brother who died in April. Cirrhosis. Hepatitis. When we did the intervention on Friday, I kept … Continue reading
Posted in Alcoholism, Death of a sibling, Grief, Intervention, Love
Tagged Alcoholism, Death and Grief, Death of a sibling, Death of Father, Father, Grief, Health, Intervention, Love, mental-health
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Letters to My Brother
In preparation for my brother’s intervention today, we all wrote letters. We were to read them to him with the hope he would enter a rehab program today. Although he could not attend the intervention, my oldest nephew, the son … Continue reading
Posted in Alcoholism, Death of a sibling, Grief, Health, Intervention, Love
Tagged Alcoholism, Death of a sibling, Grief, Health, Intervention, Love, Sibling
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I Day
Tomorrow is D Day. Or I Day. I drive back to Houston in the morning to meet with the interventionist. Also present will be my mother, my brother’s adult children (in their 20s), and a dear friend that has worked … Continue reading
Posted in Alcoholism, Depression, Intervention
Tagged Alcoholism, Death of a sibling, Depression, Health, Intervention, mental-health
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