FREE FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTION: 36 YEARS AND COUNTING! (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

My story. First drink age 9 with dad, first drunk age 13 first blackout from alcohol age 14; Sober since June 17, 1979 what happened that day when the compulsion was suddenly lifted up, off and out of me in an unusual spiritual experience out of the blue! Hope, strength, there is a Power greater than alcohol, use of prayer, meditation, struggles with God concept, dealing with childhood traumas including being born physically intersex knew I was a boy and raised as a girl; alcohol took edge off pain for awhile; had to eventually deal with claiming my male gender and lost family because of it except paternal Grandmother who stood by me 86 years; childhood cult abuse and growing up in an alcoholic home. Drinking history includes blackouts, driving drunk, loneliness, pain, obession to drink that compelled me to drink even when I did not want to; ways I attempted to stop on my own and control alcohol that failed. What I do to stay sober and drug free. How good it feels to live free from the obsession have real friends who know I am an intersex man and love and accept me as I am; how good it feels to like myself; have hobbies and volunteer work I enjoy and working as an artist, writer and full time in social work field.