“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and receive without forgetting” 

Thanksgiving Day is the most important holiday for the recovering addict, because gratitude is the greatest gift of sobriety.  Living a life in addiction is living a life of never enoug...

As a chaplain, I have the immense blessing of hearing people reflect upon their lives and share with me what insights have shaped them. Again and again, my breath is taken away by the resilience, wisdom, and creativity of our community. Very often I hear stories that r...

The first thing you should know about Scott is that Scott isn't his real name. Everything else you're about to read, however, is 100 percent true. Starting with how he opened his email to me.

"My name is Scott," he wrote, "and I am an alcoholic."

He had a normal upbringi...