Addiction and Recovery Podcast 20 - Dead Drunk

In this episode I discuss my new book Dead Drunk and what prompted me to write it.

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Dead Drunk Cover

This is to be the cover for my new book Dead Drunk which will be available in book stores across Ireland, the UK, and Asia from 30th of April 2010.

Spiritual Enlightenment; The Damndest Thing by Jed McKenna - Book Review

Jed McKenna claims to be enlightened; this is what he says in Spiritual Enlightenment; the damndest thing. I don't know if that is true or not but what I do know is that he has some interesting ideas to share. In this book he said some things that challenged some of my own beliefs and opinions. What really surprised me was that by the end of the book some of my ideas and opinions had changed. Not because I believe that Jed McKenna is some higher spiritual being, I don't really care about this, but because what he said felt convincing; you know that feeling when you read something and you just know it's true.

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Just Giving Up Drinking Alcohol May Not Be Enough

The term dry drunk syndrome can seem a bit confusing; after all if someone isn't drinking how can they possibly be a drunk? Well the dry drunk definition refers to a form of negative behavior that some people can exhibit even though they are not drinking alcohol.

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A Dream Come True - Dead Drunk Will Hit Bookstores Soon

Less than four years ago my life was a mess. I had been an alcoholic for almost two decades and had lost all hope of there ever being an escape. I had hit my first treatment centre before even leaving my teens and had been in and out of recovery groups every few years since that time. I had tried and failed at every addiction method that I could find and had been told that my liver was damaged. I was in my late thirties and had ended up somehow living in a Thai village; I was waiting to die.

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Addiction and Recovery Podcast 19 - Dealing with our Perceptions

Most days bad things happen because of our internal mood rather than what is actually happening in the outside world. Learning to see that the problem is often us, and not the world around us, can be a great help by making things easier to deal with.

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How to Develop the Motivation to Quit Addiction

A huge problem for those wishing to escape addiction is to develop the motivation to actually make the move. It is fine to know intellectually that you want to quit substance abuse but developing the energy to turn this into action is not so easy. I knew for almost two decades that my addiction was destroying my life, but there were only a few occasions when I actually tried to do something about it.

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Does Wat Thamkrabok Offer a Wonder Cure for Addiction?

In my new book ‘Dead Drunk’ I discuss how a Thai temple called Wat Thamkrabok helped me beat my addiction to alcohol. It is now almost four years since I left the temple and it really does feel like my addiction has been completely defeated.

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