Sentences with phrase «life of an alcoholic»

The naïve moralism in this area can be maintained only by ignoring the facts that inebriety is as much a symptom as a cause of the disturbed interpersonal life of the alcoholic, that alcoholism is a complex disease involving physical, cultural, and socio - psychological as well as moral factors, and that homelessness is in itself a complex phenomenon, not the simple product of excessive drinking.

We have seen ample evidence of conditions in the emotional climate of the early lives of the alcoholics which give rise to inner conflicts.

Not exact matches

«Some recipients would do fine with vouchers that they could use for any social services,» Olasky explains, «but it would be irresponsible to place unconstrained vouchers in the hands of addicts, alcoholics, and others not committed to changing their lives.»

Nevertheless, when one reads, for instance, of how the Eli Lilly company used homeless alcoholics for testing experimental drugs, it is hard not to believe that such guinea pigs are being exploited, even if they may welcome their improved living conditions during the course of the research.

The gift of God to the recovering alcoholic is «a desire to stop drinking» and people who care enough to be honest about life in the pursuit of sobriety.

He learns to cope within a blended family, attempts to understand and contend with an abusive and alcoholic stepfather, and later dates and experiments with drugs and alcohol; experiences that are not uncommon within the lives of youth today.

My soon to be 2 years of being a «dry drunk», an alcoholic is yes, due my belief in a higher power, perhaps GOD or God or even another human being who has lived thier life alikened my path in life.

The «cunningness» of an ongoing alcoholic is their denying themselves and others that they live an unmanagable extistence of drinking that is leading them nowhere with no end in sight on having anything worthy of showing for.

Perhaps he oversimplifies the idea of human will: the «Big Book» of AA indicts the alcoholic as «an extreme example of self - will run riot,» the first requirement for recovery being that he becomes «convinced that any life run on self - will can hardly be a success.»

Because of its permissive attitude toward theological ideas, it accepts the alcoholic at the point he has reached in his religious life and allows his religious formulations to grow as his experiences change.

Another group of alcoholics encountered in pastoral counseling are those whose abnormal drinking is painfully obvious to the «significant others» in their lives, but not to themselves.

The aim of Emmanuel therapy was the reconstruction of the inner life so that the alcoholic could remain abstinent — Worcester had no illusions about alcoholics becoming social drinkers.

Subsumed under this goal are four operational objectives which may be seen as overlapping stages of treatment: Helping the alcoholic (a) to accept the fact that his drinking is a problem with which he needs help; (b) to obtain, medical treatment; (c) to interrupt the addictive cycle and keep it interrupted by learning to avoid the first drink; (d) to achieve a re-synthesis of his life without alcohol.

Christians commonly believe it's not healthy to continue to think of yourself as alcoholic or an addict for the rest of your life.

Fortunate is the pastor who lives in one of the 220 areas in the United States and Canada in which alcoholic clinics are available for referral.

The long - range goal of counseling with alcoholics, then, is permanent abstinence leading to the development of potentialities for constructive living.

Such a plan should include whatever combination of therapies is required to help a particular alcoholic achieve stable sobriety and productive living.

By successfully interrupting the «runaway symptom» of drinking to overcome the effects of previous drinking, A.A. enables the alcoholic's personality resources to become available to him for handling his problems in living.

The evidence we have concerning the early life and adjustment of alcoholics points, in many cases, to a serious limitation of their capacity for self - determination.

because you know alcoholics and are a Christian / scientist you believe that life is a test of something you can not prove to begin with but something is being submitted... you mean someone is still grading my homework!!?? Crap.

As a scientist and Christian, who knows alcoholics, I choose to believe that conscious life is a sort of test of its ability to submit itself to something which can never in this Universe be proved exists with empirical evidence.

For much of his life, he was a serious alcoholic and suffered from Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder.

I setup a life in which I could manage my alcoholism and surrounded myself with a «community» of other alcoholics as a support group.

Second, my major ministry, the San Francisco Network Ministries, is among people long ago abandoned by the church — the frail elderly poor, the homeless, addicts and alcoholics, illiterates, people with AID»S / ARC who are living in poverty, prostitutes and other victims of our culture's «sex industry,» and people with various mental and physical disabilities struggling to live on meager benefit payments.

I am an alcoholic with 32 years of sobriety, Lets look at what this woman does for a living, She writes books and I see this as nothing more than a effort to promote her product.

I am an alcoholic, by the grace of God now living in my 25th year of sobriety.

Sometimes I wonder if perhaps the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous have, at some point in its 76 year history, contained individuals who possessed the ability to do great things — cure cancer, revolutionize politics, or contribute other great things to society — but whose minds became so polluted with AA propaganda that they shut off their own brilliance and chose to spend the rest of their lives «making their sobriety their number one priority» and believing humility to be more valuable than fulfilling their potential and allowing their greatness to shine.

My departure from a potentiality of a life - Long career of imbibing alcoholic based fermentations of liquidities came to an end prior to my becoming part of A.A..

Robert C. Leslie identifies these salient points at which small groups played a vital role in church history: Christ and his disciples, the Apostolic church, Montanism, monasticism, the Waldenses, the Franciscans, the Friends of God, the Brethren of the Common Life, German pietism, the Anabaptists, the Society of Friends, the Wesleyan revival, the Great Awakening, the Iona Community, the Emmanuel Movement, and the Oxford Group Movement (from which came Alcoholics Anonymous).

Please rescue me and my children we want a better life full of drug addiction, selfishness, alcoholic fathers, crime, and to learn the true art of religious bigotry.

Oh, I had all of the excuses for why I could keep enjoying my wine in the evenings — I work hard, I give so much, I'm not an alcoholic, I'm never hung - over, it doesn't affect my life, it's social, it's fun, it's in the Bible for pity's sake!

In a gripping passage of Infinite Jest, one character observes that for recovering alcoholics, pathetically unironic and gauche expressions like «one day at a time» can make the difference between life and death.

Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas: (a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.

I believe we have God's energy manifesting in us every day of our lives (Marianne W. Gilliam, How Alcoholics Anonymous Failed Me: My Personal Journey to Sobriety Through Self - Empowerment [New York: William Morrow, 19981, p. 45; bold face added).

As to alcoholics, he says: «The broad interpretation that best fits the evidence is that heavy drinkers are people for whom drinking has become a central activity in their way of life... for the long - term heavy drinker, life has come to center on drinking — life [that] is pervaded by a preoccupation with drinking, shaped and driven by the quest for drink, drinking situations, and drinking friends» (p. 100).

They are not suggesting that alcoholics turn their lives over to the care of these inanimate objects.

As far as accepting others, as a recovering drug addict & alcoholic living under bridges a couple of decades ago, Jesus met me where I was.

Ego weakness is present in many chronic alcoholics and drug addicts, persons with multiple psychosomatic problems, delinquents and criminals, and people whose lives seem to consist of one (or several) crisis after another.

When his higher Power changes f.rom «the group» to God, it is often an indication of psychological growth in the sense that he now feels accepted by life itself (instead of just the ingroup of fellow alcoholics).

The type of alcoholic who makes his living by panhandling has an inner contempt for those he exploits.

A major block in the spiritual life of the drinking alcoholic, which often continues as a barrier during his sober life, is a magical understanding and use of religion.

A third way in which the minister's counseling skills can be useful to the recovering alcoholic's re-synthesis of his life is in helping to further his spiritual growth.

When a recovering alcoholic comes to him for help with his religious problems or with the «spiritual angle» in AA, he has an opportunity to contribute to the creativity of that person's new way of life.

The clergyman - counselor can contribute significantly to helping the alcoholic move toward the goal of reconstructing his life without alcohol.

If they are illegal then there is the constant fear of living as an «outlaw» afraid to report abuses, even rape or other crimes, to the authorities, but then the same fears arise for drug users or alcoholics; the authorities are not perceived as being sympathetic to someone who needs to «shoot - up» or drink regularly, whose only source of income is to sell drugs or their bodies.

The clergyman should remember that whatever he does will register as religious in the sense that he represents the spiritual dimension of life and the religious community to the alcoholic.

The new way of life of the recovering alcoholic is a path along which he moves rather than a static goal which he achieves.

The fact that so few use alcohol now and, more important, that most of them have established adequate personal lives would seem to give good reason to expect that few, if any, would become alcoholics.

The person may begin to question whether he is really an alcoholic, since he feels so well and is obviously in competent control of his life.

The thing that Longfellow said about our enemies is equally applicable to the alcoholic: «If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.»