The horrors of alcohol withdrawal are many and legion. They’re also the primary reason alcoholics keep drinking. The shakes, the sweats, the nausea. The anxiety, the agitation, the rack of the nerves. Your muscles ache to move but can’t. Your heart pleads to slow but won’t. And your eyes sigh to close on a night that refuses to end. Count… Read More
Aversion therapy sounds like a plan for sobriety. It also sounds like an excuse to get drunk. A lot drunk. Yet that’s exactly what aversion therapy calls for. Drinking and drinking and drinking some more. Until you’ve gotten drunk enough to never want to drink again. Could be fun. Ugly fun. It also could be dangerous. Can you really drink… Read More
It took a good amount of trial and error and accident before John Ayers could become the sober professor. It also took a bout of depression. Cocktails Anyone? Like many alcoholics, John C. Ayers found drink to be a great way to treat his anxiety. And he spent most of his high school and college years drinking accordingly. A part… Read More
Healing Properties alumnus Chris Adams is a bona fide sober success story. Not only has he been clean for over a decade, but he spent those 10 years getting married, fielding a family, earning two degrees plus launching a start-up, all the while holding down a full-time job. We ended Part One of our interview just as Chris received his… Read More
Few things say successful sobriety like a wife, a kid, a full-time job and a degree or two. Throw in a hotshot sports betting start-up and you’ve also got sobriety come true. So spins the sober life of Healing Property alumni Chris Adams! Chris used to “pride himself on the alcoholic badge” he wore. “I was a liquor drinker from… Read More
