Bant Breen: Set A Personal Goal And Run With It
I am not one who normally embraces personal challenges like running a marathon. Marathon running is a cliché goal, right up there with climbing a big mountain or sailing around something. But I am buying into the cliché.
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Irish Coffee: Nathan Thompson
Former AFL star Nathan Thompson talks about helping teens, depression and one last footy match.
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The 2012 Companion is the definitive guide filled with groundbreaking techniques to jump-start your spiritual ascension and cope with the 2012 shift. Hidden spiritual realms are revealed in 3 eBooks and 4 audiobooks by noted 2012 expert Carolyn Cobelo.
The 2012 Companion: A Creative Guide to Personal and Planetary Change

Like father, like son – A famous Native artist and his gifted son battle their personal demons
During a recent purification ceremony inside the traditional sweat lodge he helped build in the maximum-security prison yard at Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward, inmate 360-849, a.k.a. Jarvis Perez, experienced a revelation.

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Book Review – Book of Days – Personal Essays – By Emily Fox Gordon
The author of two memoirs, including “Mockingbird Years,” questions the honesty of the enterprise.

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The Accuracy Of Personal Breathalyzers – Lifeloc Technologies Releases New Research
Lifeloc Technologies, Inc., a leading manufacturer of professional breathalyzers has released the industry’s first independent report on the accuracy and reliability of popular semiconductor (silicone oxide) breath testers sold in mass retail, pharmacy, specialty stores and on the Internet. “Anecdotal reports and experiences of consumers, law enforcement and other industry players have centered …

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This book is not just for Jewish people. It’s for all people who would gain insight– and strength to heal–from Jewish tradition.
* All people who are in trouble with alcohol, drugs, or other addictions–food, gambling, and sex
* Anyone seeking an understanding of the Twelve Steps from a Jewish perspective–regardless of religious background or affiliation
* Alcoholics and addicts in recovery
* Codependents
* Adult children of alc… More >>

Twelve Jewish Steps to Recovery: A Personal Guide to Turning from Alcoholism and Other Addictions–Drugs, Food, Gambling, Sex

Helping alcoholics becomes personal issue
Former Hampton councilman supports foundation for treatment – Randy Gilliland describes his father as the strongest person he has ever met.

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Health Advocacy Group Pushes Liquor Tax In Md.; Mass. Computer Files With Personal Health Care Information Are Lost …
The Baltimore Sun: “A health advocacy group is hoping to use this year’s election to pressure General Assembly members into passing a ‘dime a drink’ liquor tax increase to help pay for health care for the disabled and poor. Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative sent out letters Monday to all candidates running for the state Senate or House of Delegates, urging them to sign a pledge supporting the …

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Afghan president takes ‘personal interest’ in suspended NGOs
Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai is taking a personal interest in the case of two Western aid organisations at the centre of a controversy over Christian proselytising, his spokesman said Tuesday.

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Over the past few years of blogging here and at my personal blogsite
I have a busy year ahead of me. I am in the throes of doing the interviews for my PhD (the fun bit) and then comes the hard bit – the analysis and writing. I’m very much looking forward to it.

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Drug and alcohol worker brings personal expertise to her job
SANDUSKY For 13 1/2 years, Tondra K. Frisby has been a sober, recovering drug and alcohol addict.

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The Forbidden Fuel – A Personal Odyssey
In 1980, three young professionals decided to embark on an anthology of the early and modern dreamers of a sustainable biomass-based transportation system. Two reporters for legendary news muckraker Jack Anderson and an energy aide to Senator Javits (me) decided to pull together the disparate pieces of a long and complex history as well as the modern drivers of a road to sustainable energy.

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Freedom starts with personal salvation
Logan was a small Jewish neighborhood in North Philly. That’s were I was born, smack in the middle of the last century. Let’s pan down to the Beth Judah Hebrew school, where the teacher, Mr. Silver, is sending me to the principal’s office for getting caught taking bets on that Sunday’s Eagles game.

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“The story of becoming sober signifies a great deal more than simply not ‘picking up’ or ‘using’. This is a story not only of recovery, but also of what it means to live in sobriety.”
Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy
1st District, Rhode Island “This book, written by a recovering addict who became a successful therapist, is a perfect road map for addicts, codependents, and therapists. Among the milestones are sobriety, emotional maturity, a… More >>

From Addiction to Recovery: A Therapist’s Personal Journey

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Who is the typical alcoholic among the 12.5 million living in the United States now? Many, if not most of us when asked that question, would envision a skid row bum or someone at least out of work or with little education locked into a low-skill, low-paying job. But that is not accurate, according to the results of a national study released in June, 2007 by the National Institutes of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The NIAAA determined that alcoholics in the United St… More >>

Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic: Professional Views and Personal Insights

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A rabbi, a psychiatrist who specializes in addiction treatment, and many recovering Jewish people share their experience with and understanding of the twelve Jewish steps of recovery from addiction of all kinds based on conversations with each other–and with God. Twelve Jewish Steps to Recovery explains how the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous is relevant for Jewish people. Many Jewish people see the Twelve Steps as “Christian” and have difficulty… More >>

Twelve Jewish Steps to Recovery: A Personal Guide to Turning from Alcoholism and Other Addictions