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My favorite recovery author is John Bradshaw. He is the one who introduced me to the idea of the inner child. And he also helped me understand that alcoholism is never a primary illness, but rather it is a secondary disease. Bradshaw believes that the primary illness is co-dependency or as he says the disease of the disease.

When I quit drinking I had a fear of not only going to jail but also ending up divorced. And at first this was the reason I quit drinking. But as time went on and I became a regular at AA meetings I slowly began feeling good about the direction my life was going.