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The Battle for My Brain
If you want to learn amazing things about your body and mind, try this: stop smoking. I know because I quit six months ago – to the day, in fact, as I write this. As I read how nicotine captured my brain I began to understand why it’s so hard to stop. For me it was a physical, mental and spiritual battle. One friend even said I needed to think like a warrior. Only now is the smoke clearing...
Letters From The Editor
03/07/2012
It is generally accepted today that we must be “advocates” for ourselves in the medical “system” – which, as one cynic put it, wasn’t designed as a “system” and...
Letters From The Editor
01/03/2012
“It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair … “ One challenge in editing this newspaper is keeping it from becoming a litany of gloom. We deal with matters of...
Letters From The Editor
11/21/2011
I first heard Santana’s “Black Magic Woman” in 1970 when I was in college. Today I have the CD in my car. I never graduated to Lawrence Welk or whatever “adult” music...
Letters From The Editor
09/01/2011
I go for a walk along a quiet road every morning for my physical health, and to amuse myself I carry a garden spade to liberate wild flowers from town mowers. Yellow, red, blue,...
From the Editor
06/30/2011
Early on a recent Saturday I found myself in the basement watching water leak out of my furnace. I’d just bought a piece of black rubber for the thing -- $400. Now the guy was...
Letters From The Editor
05/10/2011
Our First Year Comes to a Close Welcome to the last issue of our first full year in publication. Whew! It has been quite a ride, as is usual with a start-up, especially a print...
Letters from the Editor
03/24/2011
Nancy O'Hara Editor-in-Chief Living in the Question This time of year is special for many of us and is often referred to as Holy Days. Easter, Passover, Buddha’s birthday...
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01/01/2011
Lisa Kirchner, Web Editor We look forward to bringing you news and insights from in and around the world of recovery, but do let us know if there's something you'd like to see...
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11/01/2010
Nancy O'Hara Editor-in-Chief Be Safe, Serene and Sober Anyone who suffers from compulsive behavior or loves someone who struggles with addiction knows that there is no...
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09/01/2010
Back To It September blues: remember those? What I remember is people moaning about the melancholy they felt with the arrival of September, but once I got past the...
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