Yin Yang Recovery

    Most of my physical alcoholic overhaul was achieved in a few days. No permanent liver damage. Vital signs apparently somewhat normal. Three hernia operations at most coincidentally related to my alcoholism.
 

    My real healing is mental change. And that has been slow, but progressively better. I've even come to accept my many relapses as part of my recovery progress and process.

    The physical obsession to drink has long gone and now I have just the occasional battle with the thought of a drink. I have been learning to 'participate in my own recovery'.

from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Chapter 57)