Sentences with phrase «on sobriety»

Weekly group meetings consist of group members reporting on their sobriety; triggers and challenges; and most importantly, their successes.

My belief is that the main focus of recovery is not on sobriety but rather on getting healthy and learning to connect to the other group members.

The partner who has sexually acted outside of the marriage must be working on their sobriety and recovery in order for me to work with you as a couple.

He allegedly performed poorly on the sobriety test.

While Caldwell, J. in Hopman does not refer specifically to those decisions, she does adopt the reasoning of Molloy, J. in R. v. Dillon7 who does refer to Mann extensively in a thorough review of the application of the Dedman8 test to detention in parking lots, open to the public, and coming to the conclusion that an officer stopping a vehicle in that situation, to check on sobriety, is not breaching the accused's section 9 rights.

good luck on the sobriety.

In the case of Mrs. R., these include an understanding of the nature of alcoholism (as it eventually became clear that Mr. R. is an alcoholic), the futility of her attempts to coerce him to stop drinking, and the importance of her changing her assumption that any improvement in the family situation is totally dependent on his sobriety.

The actor told GQ that he's working on his sobriety.

To Marya, congrats on the sobriety.

The minister who is well trained in counseling and psychotherapy may help the alcoholic whose inner conflicts and residual feelings from early relationships make his hold on sobriety tenuous.

Congratulations on your sobriety.

There is no evidence to support that AA has any effect on sobriety.

Congrats on your sobriety; just because you traded in your booze for christ doesn't make him real.

Congrats on your sobriety.

The aim of this therapy is to reduce the flood of anxiety which makes his hold on sobriety precarious and his life somewhat miserable when he is without the anesthetic effects of alcohol.

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At least 10 people tried to mail their taxes through the campground post office on the first day of the festival — a reckless choice considering the mail doesn't have a return address and, as Hampton says, the destination isn't always written out carefully considering the senders» level of sobriety.

Despite recently celebrating her six years sober «birthday,» Lovato's sobriety came under fire this week after a fan noticed some suspicious edits on Instagram.

How might you be encumbered by sobriety as a speaker, outdone by more dynamic souls who speak with passion or humor, who light the room on fire or set the table on a roar?

Ashley plans to change that via a blockchain - based solution that not only matches daters based on compatibility like a Match.com or mutual interest like Tinder, but also provides safety via pre-date video chats, sobriety checks, and «safe» words that the Loly app will listen for.

My take on her story was that she, being an atheist, was able to utilize the AA model to achieve and maintain sobriety.

However, in those cases in which AA results in a basically repressive solution — «sitting on the lid harder» — sobriety is always precarious.

After Joe has had a few weeks of sobriety, Harry invites him to go along on a Twelfth Step call.

In AA, religious resources are made available on a more temperate basis and are utilized more for maintaining than producing sobriety.

The fact that AA depends neither on religious thrill (as evidenced, for example, by the lack of group singing), nor on a «hot flash» type of religious experience, makes for a more stable sobriety.

Many people make the mistake of getting on the correct track to sobriety, but still hanging around the dope dealer or going to places that provide a milder hit.

On the positive side it is well to remember that the mission approach does help some alcoholics to long - term sobriety and re-assimilation into society.

Some people are able to see through the delusion and are able to attain sobriety on their own, without the AA religion.

Permanent sobriety and productive living are contingent on finding such satisfactions in relationships — with fellow AA members, family, and, in many cases, a «higher Power.»

The permanency of his sobriety may be dependent, to some degree, on the revitalization of these shattered relationships or their replacement if they are beyond repair.

perhaps the success rate of AA would improve without this focus on an invisible, undefineable mediator as source of sobriety.

Understanding surrender & humility while humoring a bunch of Christians with all their blood - drenched macho Jesus crap in order to share the connections we have with each other on even deeper levels of sobriety is what AA is really all about.

In order to do this, the wife must have relinquished her assumption that any improvement in the family is dependent on her husband's achieving sobriety.

«I just give credit to the Lord,» he said, reflecting on three decades of sobriety and productivity.

On the contrary, it is a time of great mourning, of utter dread of what could become of us, and a time of extreme sobriety as we contemplate the task at hand: to forge our own values.

I enjoyed the blog article for focusing on the importance of sobriety over the importance of religion.

According to Nikolaus Lobkowicz, Bonaventure is following Thomas Gallus's contention that «instead of applying the intellectus theoreticus» (i.e., our capacities for discursive and «speculative» reasoning, on which Thomas Aquinas focused), we «ought to reach God by the summus affectionis apex, the «tip of the will»: «It is by this communion (unitio) that we have to know things divine, not in terms of the sobriety of our intellect.»»

The manifold variety of doctrines which could be encountered in early Greek philosophy and in the early Hellenistic age was abandoned (though to some extent revived in Gnostic circles), and in its place came a fairly uniform teaching, largely Stoic in origin, which laid emphasis on the four virtues of justice, courage, sobriety and understanding, and was addressed by preachers to individuals.

While I'm also keen on radlers and shandies, the low - alcohol blend of fruit juice and beer that conquers thirst without killing sobriety, I've lately filled my fridge with a stronger citrusy quaff.

He ended what he contends was a three - year, seven - month and four - day period of sobriety on Aug. 4, the Sunday of the Volvo Scandinavian Masters in Kungsbacka, Sweden, after finishing 18th.

He preaches sobriety on his Twitter account and mentors young adults as an ambassador for a Transcend Recovery program.

He has an accountability partner meant to shadow him and help him through his sobriety, and also is subject to drug tests three times per week, though, Hamilton reportedly came forward on his own to admit he relapsed to MLB.

Despite getting beaten by Jeremy Lin and a recent D - League player down the stretch, the feeling in Portland on Friday wasn't of depression, but of sobriety.

Do recall that cosleeping with an infant on a couch, recliner, or sofa, though also forms of cosleeping are, however, dangerous and should be avoided as they increase the chances of suffocation, regardless of sobriety.

About 250 park officers statewide are trained to assist with search and rescues (including on ice), do field sobriety tests, respond to accidents and serve as liaisons with snowmobile clubs that help maintain the trails.

It is like the harsh light of sobriety on the mind of an alcoholic.

Westchester County Police arrested eight persons on DWI charges early this morning while conducting roving DWI patrols and fixed sobriety checkpoints.

(CNN)-- Former New York Rep. John Sweeney was arrested early Sunday morning on his second DWI incident in 17 months after refusing to take field sobriety tests, the Saratoga County District Attorney's office confirms to CNN.

East End law enforcement agencies joined Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota Tuesday afternoon to unveil a plan to bolster sobriety checkpoints on land and at sea this summer.

Troopers conducted a field sobriety test on the man and then took him to the trooper station at the Empire State Plaza in downtown Albany, where a breath test revealed he had a blood - alcohol content of 0.28 percent.

Despite the growing use of online support groups such as those on Facebook to help curb substance abuse, attending traditional face - to - face meetings may continue to be more effective for people trying to maintain sobriety, according to research presented at the American Psychological Association's 123rd Annual Convention.