Welcome to another week of the Chapter 3 Newsletter, I hope you all are enjoying the summertime season!
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WE FINALLY DID IT! After 23 episodes, we finally have made it to the namesake of this entire endeavor - Chapter 3 of the Alcoholics Anonymous book. This chapter is titled “More on Alcoholism” and its greatest value is to allow readers to hold a mirror up to their own lives to begin the process of making that ever key and deeply personal decision if they are an alcoholic. The power in this chapter is immense, I am very excited to have gotten to the point in this journey with you all.
And just like that, we divert out of Chapter 3 in the Alcoholics Anonymous book. Stay with me, I promise we’ll make it all the way through! I wanted to take this week in the podcast to recognize another very key milestone and moment in Alyssa and my life. August 8th is a day that will live with us forever, as it is the day that we found out that our daughter (unnamed at the time) had a very serious health condition. I will forever look to this day as the exact moment that my alcoholism was completely taken away from me, as I discovered a personal relationship with God sitting there in the ultrasound room that day.
Interesting Articles & Reads
High Functioning Alcoholism: Recognizing Signs and When to Seek Help
Here’s a lead in to the next article - high functioning alcoholism is a complete myth. With any alcoholic, you’re rolling the dice each and every time you take a drink. You’re working against a clock that will run out. The outcomes are death, a revelation or a continuing degradation of your life. Alcohol has a unique affect, it quickly filters out people who exhibit socially unacceptable behavior via death or jail to remove them from society’s view, so that we are left with this image of a high functioning alcoholic. But that’s all it is, an image, or better yet a mirage. It just doesn’t exist.
The Myth of the High Functioning Alcoholic
Part deux
That’s all I’ve got! All the best,
Kyle Zibrowski