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2 days ago
4 min

Why Do You Do It? - The Divided Mind

I'd been dry for five years. It had taken intensive psychotherapy and three years to overcome excruciating panic attacks. I'd gone throug...

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Andrew Bevan - Voluntary Mentor

Nov 2
4 min

The Courage To Be

The title of this blog is taken from a book published by Paul Tillich in 1952. At its broadest level, it's saying that we need courage to...

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Andrew Bevan - Voluntary Mentor

Oct 5
4 min

It Takes One to Know One

One of the ancient Greek sayings much beloved by philosophers is “know thyself”. With this in mind, I recall being asked at an addiction ...

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Andrew Bevan - Voluntary Mentor

Sep 1
3 min

Living Between Now and Not Yet

Sometimes you press the send button and instantly regret it. You’ve reacted to something said about you. Or maybe you’re upset about work...

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The Long and the Short of Alcoholism in Financial Markets

Andrew Bevan - Voluntary Mentor

Aug 3
3 min

The Long and the Short of Alcoholism in Financial Markets

When I was young, I used to spend hours looking at all of the football results and the league tables. I would analyse them endlessly. Act...

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Andrew Bevan - Voluntary Mentor

Jul 20
3 min

Alcohol and Spirituality - The Family

Attention to spiritual health on the path to recovery in alcohol treatment is about encouraging openness. It’s about letting go of inward...

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The OAD Clinic

Jul 6
4 min

The Brain and Addiction - Part III

Do we have three brains? Now we know that in the early century XX neuroscientists were able to understand the roots of some of Jon’s symp...

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Be Still - Mindfulness in Lockdown Recovery

Andrew Bevan - Voluntary Mentor

Jun 22
3 min

Be Still - Mindfulness in Lockdown Recovery

Being still is difficult. Being in isolation is even more difficult - for everybody, but especially for alcoholics in recovery. Lockdown ...

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Alcohol and Spirituality – The Human Person

Andrew Bevan - Voluntary Mentor

Jun 8
5 min

Alcohol and Spirituality – The Human Person

Spiritual well-being has an important role to play in recovery from alcoholism. That is because spirituality, when properly understood in...

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The OAD Clinic

Jun 1
4 min

The Brain and Addiction - Part II

Reptilians Among Us Late in the morning in April 1899 Christfried was crossing the cobbled central square of Erlangen, in Bayern. His pac...

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