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	<title>Against the Grain &#187; Alcohol Recovery</title>
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		<title>Saints Don&#8217;t Get Angry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in a family of screamers, duckers, fighters, and scramblers. If that didn&#39;t work, my family withdrew into icy silence. That&#39;s what we thought bedrooms were for: our little caves of isolation where we could get our way in frozen-lake invisibility. If that didn&#39;t work, we could always go to plan B: smart-ass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psychobabble and AA Principles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was at an AA meeting recently when someone criticized what he considered to be the psychobabble at meetings. For some of us in the rooms, such criticism is often a back-door way of hiding behind the literature of AA in order to avoid being honest about our our motives, our rationalizations, our hidden agendas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owning Up, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 18:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second part of a two part series on “Owning Up, Emotional Honesty.” In the first part, I discussed the confessional-box tradition I grew up in and my many years of therapy. In this part, I discuss the importance of what twelve-steppers refer to as the “rooms,” the meeting places where we go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owning Up: Emotional Honesty</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/owning-up-emotional-honesty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 16:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a two-part series on owning up, honesty, and emotional transparency. In the first part, I discuss my confessional-box heritage growing up as a Roman Catholic. I then go on to cover the contrasting role of therapy in helping me to be more honest about myself. In the second part of this two-part series, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grief and Addiction Recovery</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/grief-and-addiction-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grief and Addiction Recovery by Glynis Sherwood MEd, CCC, CSAC A while ago I received this email from a woman experiencing the opposite of the positive emotions she had hoped to find in recovery. “I’m in recovery from alcoholism and should feel happy, but I feel sad and angry and empty &#8211; almost like I’m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Descents into Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my active alcoholic/addiction days, I vividly remember believing that if I descended into the booze enough, I would somehow come out car-wash clean. My repressions would be lifted. I could be my real self. I wouldn&#8217;t have to hide. I would be diamond-cut perfect. And, of course, I would have a winning style and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addiction, Another World</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is another blog post on addiction and may help non-addicts understand the many-layered world of addiction, a world I once inhabited and continue to recover from. Because addiction is an equal-opportunity emotional and physical derailment, I purposely shift between the pronouns, &#8220;he&#8221; and &#8220;she&#8221; to avoid the impression that men have a monopoly on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addiction&#8217;s Curse: Not Being Present</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/an-addicts-curse-not-being-present/</link>
		<comments>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/an-addicts-curse-not-being-present/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woody Allen once said that whenever he was somewhere, he always wanted to be somewhere else. We are never satisfied, it seems, to be where we are. There is always some other goal to attain, some other fantasy to fulfill, some other dessert we haven&#8217;t tried. I say that to all my twitter friends because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surrender</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/surrender/</link>
		<comments>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/surrender/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I started to write an essay on surrender, I went to my twitter page and tried to send another one of my many “What are you doing” twitter messages. Up popped a mysteriously serious black-and-white message, “HTTP Server Error 503.” I was back in Kafka land, the world of high-tech jargon, a cosmos that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alcoholism and Free Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to an NPR program, “On Point,” the other day and a writer was being interviewed about his book in which he claims that alcoholism is not a disease but an ism of  choice. I don&#8217;t believe there are too many recovering addicts or alcoholics who would give themselves over to the generalized [...]]]></description>
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