Today's Reviewer: "it's really challenging me to... change my false reality and conquer my future!" - 5***** Star Review of ALL DRINKING ASIDE

5.0 out of 5 stars"Whatever power is, that’s what addiction steals. I need 

to repeat that to myself again"

By Tobias Mele on December 30, 2017

I didn't drink for almost a year but I've been struggling with life, Alcohol is one 

contribution to that struggle. I'm using your book to help guide me to a better place, 

but I'll proably have to read it again and again (I'm a very visual person) so far 

though it's really challenging me to think, reflect...change my false reality and 

conquer my future!

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#Alcoholism #Addiction #Recovery
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18 Favorite Recovery-Related Quotes for 2018 (Happy, Deep & More)

HAPPY 2018! (in no particular order):

1) "I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on." - Oscar Levant

2) "Because you are alive, everything is possible." - Thich Nhat Hanh

3) "The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." - Samuel Johnson

4) "Everything you own, owns a part of you." - Gracie Allen

5) "The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself." - Mark Twain

6) "To live is to suffer. To survive is to find meaning in suffering." - Viktor Frankl

7) "It's not trespassing when you cross your own boundaries." - Anonymous

8) "In a full heart there is room for everything and in an empty heart there is room for nothing." - Antonio Porchia

9) "Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down." - Anonymous

10) "How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that make me want to drink?" - Anonymous

11) "Silent Gratitude isn't very much use to anyone." - Gertrude Stein

12) "It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." - Andrew J. Holmes

13) "Talk doesn't cook rice." - Chinese Proverb

14) "For fast-acting relief, try slowing down." - Lily Tomlin

15) "Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens." - Epictetus

16) "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them." - Albert Einstein

17) "Nothing matters more than that we remain sober because when we remain sober everything matters more." - Jim Anders

18) "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
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(Please note: The "Me We" pictured is by Muhammad Ali, Harvard University, 1975, and is credited as being the world's shortest poem)

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These 4 Short Reviews Score ALL DRINKING ASIDE 5***** Stars

1) By Gail Mary
Brilliance at it's absolute best!!! Captivating to say the least!!! Unlike any other book on the beast of the bottle!!!!
2) By Scott H
I appreciated his sharing of what is a intense and frightening story. It was a pleasure reading and his writing is well balanced in being entertaining as well as inspiring. His quotations reveal some heartfelt humility and intelligent humor.
3) By Marlene 
Humor, satire, fantasy...the book has it all. This autobiographical "fiction" will make you laugh; nod your head in agreement; question. You don't need to be an alcoholic ( active or passive, past or present ) to relate to Jim's characters and situations. My wife and I have totally enjoyed reading it.
4) By David W. MacDonald 
Autobiographical novel? So I probably wouldn't need my high-lighter, right WRONG!!! The book was so good that I found myself starting to bend the corners of certain pages and finally broke down and started high-lighting many passages. Much of the book is now high-lighted in yellow. Jim Anders tells the journey inside the mind of an alcoholic/addict from the beginnings through recovery. Whether or not you are an addict/alcoholic, we all know someone who is (often in our family). This book clears away the mystery of much that is going on. I highly recommend it and am already thinking of people to whom I might gift it.

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"Nothing matters more than that we remain sober because when we remain sober everything matters more."
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#Alcoholism #Addiction #Recovery
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ALL DRINKING ASIDE Diagnosed "CLEVER" by Medic

5.0 out of 5 stars

A Medic writes,     

"I have read "All Drinking Aside" twice now, and look for different excerpts and meditations daily. Jim's clever conception of alter egos, as if anyone or alcoholic knows, an alcoholic has many, is genius at least. Some of the heart felt stories and the great lengths Jim has gone for recovery, shows what sobriety means to him. Substitute any vice for alcohol, out of the book, and anyone can apply some of the principles Jim has to offer, in their daily lives. This book has helped me in many ways, to help maintain my own sobriety, and how to continue to grow as a person. I related to many of Jim's character flaws and the depth he went to go to climb out of the pit of despair. I do not look at this book as just a recovery book, but a self help book for all to benefit from. Very well written and composed !!"

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"Nothing matters more than that we remain sober because when we remain sober everything matters more."

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#Alcoholism #Addiction #Recovery

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Different Drugs of Choice / United in Recovery

I became friends with a guy on Facebook not too long ago and in the matter of a few seconds he sort of dismissed me, explaining that his substance was cocaine and mine was alcohol. End of story, so he thought.
End of story? Not really. I sent him this personal message:
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"Alcohol is my poison, my prison. A brick wall, a trap door, a cancer, a bad joke, an empty bottle, an excuse, a leaky faucet, a loan shark, a broken promise, a cracked mirror, an earthquake, an avalanche, a train wreck, a recurring nightmare. Alcohol is my insanity."
Then I asked him: "Was Cocaine your poison, your prison? A brick wall, a trap door, a cancer, a bad joke, an empty bottle, an excuse, a leaky faucet, a loan shark, a broken promise, a cracked mirror, an earthquake, an avalanche, a train wreck, a recurring nightmare? Was Cocaine your insanity?"
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Our differing addictions, mine to a legal substance, his to an illegal one, led us, in short order, to identify with each other. Where we once had different drugs of choice, we now had unity of purpose in our pursuit of Recovery. Our goals in Recovery were parallel. Those parallel lines formed a road. That road is the Road of Recovery. We could and did help each other. Our days of arguing apples and oranges were over before they started. Our common purpose in maintaining and sustaining our Recovery united us. The common thread in the fabric of our lives sustains us. I and he became we in a moment which continues.
I, you, he, she, it, we, you and they are United in Recovery. Our differences of personality are secondary to our common humanity. Helping one helps each and all. A sane and sober world is created, recreated, sustained.
Whatever Our Differences, We Stand United in Recovery! 
I did not drink today. You did not drug today. Our drugs of choice are gone. A sane, sober and responsible future stretches before us. Alcohol is a Drug / Cocaine is a Drug: BINGO! In Recovery UNITED!

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"Nothing matters more than that we remain sober because when we remain sober everything matters more."

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#Alcoholism #Addiction #Recovery

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