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Most of the people who stick with the program and do all of the suggested things, (getting a sponsor, working the steps, going to a ton of meetings, reading recovery literature) will get sober. Behind all of this thinking is one idea, the alcoholic has to want sobriety more than he/she wants to drink.
The alcoholic who wants to get sober will do all of the above things and more. So there you have it! Where addicts fall off is when they think they’ve licked their disease and stop going to meetings, etc.
A new word for our vocabulary. If you are in recovery from substance abuse and are anything like me, in my final days of my active disease, my vocabulary had been reduced to four-letter words and many of them weren’t so nice. In recovery, we love to grow and learn. I’ve always had a fascination with words and I’d like to spread this contagion.
At the bottom of some of my posts, I will feature a word of the day so that we can start rebuilding our vocabulary as we rebuild our lives. I’m here to grow and I hope you are too so here we go…
ebullient \ih-BUL-yuhnt\, adjective:
1. Overflowing with enthusiasm or excitement; high-spirited.
2. Boiling up or over.
The glasses he wore for astigmatism gave him a deceptively clerkish appearance, for he had an ebullient, gregarious personality, a hot temper, and an outsized imagination.
– Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
He was no longer an ebullient, energetic adolescent.
– Linda Simon, Genuine Reality: A Life of William James
Ebullient comes from Latin ebullire, “to bubble up
Ed. Note: Become a more persuasive writer and speaker… build your self-confidence and intellect… increase your attractiveness to others… just by learning a new word as often as you can.
