When Ben meets the beautiful prostitute Sera (Elisabeth Shue), they strike up an unconventional relationship -- one where she can't ask him to curb his drinking, and he can't fault her for her job. Though they offer each other support, Ben's self-destruction threatens to eclipse their...
12. Women For Sobriety Women for Sobriety, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping women overcome alcoholism and other addictions. It is, in fact, the first national self-help recovery program for women alcoholics. The WFS 'New Life' Program helps women achieve sobriety and ...
while not missing the smaller details. What I experience reading some of these books is a kind of resonance. It’s the feeling you have when reading a thought that exactly conveys how you feel inside. The best of all time are the ones that help us make sense out of all the chaos arou...
and instead got it from the library. I expected a very funny book that would be filled with wisdom and wit. Instead I found a slightly funny book that lacked originality and really had nothing to say. It would be too harsh to call it self-indulgent, but in a way it was. So she ha...
Eventually, we went on to college and began trying to figure out if a life together would work for us. During this time, I drank with my college friends before we’d go out dancing, but drinking didn’t seem to be of much importance. However, I never asked myself why something I ...
Margaret was the only girl in her enormous family, and her second-oldest brother, Riley, was a notorious burnout who alternated between doing semesters at the College of Knowledge and rehab at Fenwick Hall, where Charleston’s richest alcoholics went to rest. He was famous for slipping drugs ...
I’m new to making proper music, I’m new to being in the public eye, and I’m new to even seeing myself as a musician. I give all credit to anything on my tracks to the wonderful souls that see a seed of potential and help transform them into real things, and for that I am...
Though these policies may have been intended to help people find jobs and a path to “self-sufficiency,” what we see instead is a maddening maze of red tape women must jump through to make ends meet. In one jaw-dropping scene, a welfare caseworker recalls the time she was expected to ...
unable to admit she is an alcoholic and unable to accept that their lives are better apart. “Days of Wine and Roses” is essentially a long commercial for Alcoholics Anonymous, but Remick and Lemmon play so well off of each other and develop a convincing camaraderie that it makes it all ...
41. “I worry when I can’t help the team with everything I have to offer.”– Luis Suarez Related50 Big Book Quotes From the Text of Alcoholics Anonymous’ Program For Recovery 42. “There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.”– Leonel Messi ...