Alcoholism and Blog of the Week: RECRUM

This week’s featured blog is RECRUM: Recovery Ruminations written by Phil, who’s been sober for 336 days since January 15, 2005. Even though I haven’t read RECRUM for long, it’s clear that blogging has been therapeutic for Phil. He has reached out to the blogging community and found support from other recovering addicts.

In September, he wrote:

I’m truly grateful for the experience, strength and hope I find in others’ blogs. For instance, just in the past few days, Pepa, Scott, Blue, Dave, Trudge, and Lash have said things that expressed my own thoughts and feelings, so much better than I can myself. And this is just a sample, I could point to many others. I’m truly grateful, too, for the remarkable joy, pain, courage and growth of some bloggers in their first days of recovery, such as Steph, Grace, and Jane. Their journeys inspire me, and remind me how much I want, and believe I can have, the continuous renewal that a spiritually-centered recovery offers. The journeys of the “oldtimers” show me the result of that continuous renewal, and the good life that I want, and that I believe I can have.

The power of blogging cannot be understimated. I’m sure Phil at RECRUM inspires others as much as others have inspired him.

For more information on alcoholism, please see my previous post – Chromosomes 2 and 4 Associated with Alcohol Consumption. And you may also be interested in our sister b5media blog – A Dozen Steps.