Anne’s Story

Update 5/21/21: I last updated this story in 2019. Thanks to research scientists, many of my views about substance use are now more informed. Thanks to counselors who offer research-informed counseling protocols, I am now in remission from substance use disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. I am currently writing brief pieces that may be of assistance to clients and attempting to compose sentences in Mandarin Chinese.

Memoir

The Fix published my memoir, entitled The Last Addictions Memoir (Hopefully): An Evidence-Based Recovery Story, in serial form.

Table of contents:

Part 1 – Introduction and Handout 1 – 3/24/17
Part 2  – Handout 2 – 3/31/17
Part 3 – Handout 3 – 4/7/17

(Handouts published together as a guide to evidence-informed self-care on my company’s blog.)

Part 4 – About the broken foot – 4/14/17
Part 5 – About my father – 4/21/17
Part 6 – About my mother and photographs – 4/28/17
Part 7 – About my mother and books – 5/5/17
Part 8 – About the baby – 5/12/17
Part 9 – About the first student – 5/23/17
Part 10 – About alcoholism as a horror story – 5/30/17
Part 11 – About the shootings – 6/6/17
Part 12 – About wishing for a redo after 4.5 years of abstinence – 6/13/17
Part 13 – About the final student – 6/20/17
Part 14 – About what I did on 12/28/12 – 7/4/17
Part 15 – About attention and abstinence – 7/18/17
Part 16 – About how I’m crazy – 7/25/17
Part 17 – About the abstinence protection plan deal, 8/1/17
Part 18 – About staying home, 8/8/17
Part 19 – About dancing, 8/22/17
The End – About love, 8/29/17