Week 1: The Four Horsemen of Addiction – Naming the Shadows, Finding the Light
"Terror, bewilderment, frustration, despair. These are the Four Horsemen." – AA Big Book, p.151 When I first read these words in the Big Book, something inside me stopped cold. There they were – four simple words that somehow captured the entire hurricane of emotions I'd been living with for years. These weren't just abstract concepts written on a page; they were the very forces that had been driving my life into the ground, one poor decision at a time. The authors of Alcoholics Anonymous weren't being dramatic when they chose...
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