Hi, I'm Bill and I'm Old: Reinventing My Sobriety for the Long Haul

Hi, I'm Bill and I'm Old: Reinventing My Sobriety for the Long Haul by Alexander, William. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781592856633.

One July evening, William Alexander, an author and highly regarded lecturer on spirituality and recovery, had an all-too-real fantasy about getting drunk again. He had been sober for 23 years, so why was he suddenly craving the feeling of freedom that only a quart of Jack Daniels used to bring? Alexanders psyche was facing something it hadnt faced before: he was growing old. Thus, he was returning to old ways of coping with something uncomfortable that he didnt want to deal with. Out of the authors personal reflections and hard-won insights emerges an unconventional approach to the challenges of recovery that come with aging. Beginning with the admission that we are as powerless over growing old as we are over our addictions, Alexander takes readers on a journey of discovery and, in doing so, overturns the clichés of age, revealing how to: let go of old ideas experience meditation in a new light re-vision personal mythologies discover the virtues of idleness challenge the assumption that older is necessarily wiser With one foot firmly planted in the principles of AA, and the other in the rich life experience of a child of the sixties, Hi, Im Bill and Im Old helps people in recovery reinvent how they can take on the unique challenges that come with age.