Sentences with phrase «learn about our alcoholism»

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The church, too, can learn much from AA, both about alcoholism and the healing power of creative religion.

(1) To create an occasion and an atmosphere in which members of the clergy and other professional people may learn more about alcoholism and observe the recovered alcoholic through his own story.

Four years ago, my acupuncturist put me on a copper - zinc balancing program, but it was only about a year ago that I learned about pyroluria from the Resource Tool Kit in The Mood Cure by Julia Ross, MA.29 Those of us with this condition, affecting 11 percent of the population, produce excessive amounts of a metabolic toxin called pyrroles, which requires vitamin B6 and zinc for detoxification.30 Significantly, this condition is found disproportionately in those with alcoholism, 31 schizophrenia32 and mood disorders.33 It can also produce baffling physical symptoms due to heightened deficiency of these two nutrients, as well as manganese, 34 a nutrient that is crucially needed to activate arginase, 35 the enzyme that converts ammonia to urea for excretion from the body.

Any individuals or families who experience difficulty or discomfort in this 72 - hour timeframe should contact local NCADD affiliates, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), or Al - Anon to learn more about alcoholism and its early symptoms.

Ontario, Canada About Blog Julie Elsdon - Height is a Mum to 2 wonderful little ladies, wife to an amazing man, blogger, speaker, Christ follower who faced her Alcoholism and got fed up and decided to learn how to experience this journey of life fully.