Posts Tagged ‘12 Step meetings’
Cornerstone’s Howard Bowlin reflects on (almost!) 41 years of sobriety
The final six months of 1979 were some of the darkest of Howard Bowlin’s life. Today, the spiritual advisor, military veteran and retired Episcopal priest recalls them with the stoicism of a man who’s spent 40 years working a one-day-at-a-time program of acceptance and change. At Cornerstone of Recovery, the drug and alcohol treatment center…
Read MoreSOBRIETY 101: What happens at recovery meetings, how did they start and why are they necessary?
With so many references to recovery meetings by those who are working on obtaining or maintaining sobriety, it’s understandable if you think they’ve somehow landed jobs at high-profile ad agencies or law firms where brainstorming sessions with partners and clients occur on an hourly basis. Often, their references are arbitrary and perhaps even cryptic: “I…
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