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I’m Bill Vineyard.

For 37 years I ran a family-owned alcohol and drug rehabilitation center. My mission was to introduce recovery to those struggling with addiction.

Throughout this time I conducted over 30,000 drug and alcohol offense-related evaluations and met with thousands of outpatient and inpatient clients. The industry has changed a lot since I began, and I know what works and what doesn’t.

The Recovery Effect is a platform where I share the stories, insights, and knowledge I’ve learned from my work in the addictions field. It’s also a space where I invite you to ask questions, make requests, and get in touch with me 1-on-1.

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  • Three Choices The immediate object of our quest is sobriety—freedom from alcohol and from all its baleful consequences. Without this freedom, we have nothing at all. Paradoxically, though, we can achieve no liberation from the alcohol obsession until we become willing to deal with those character defects which have landed us in that helpless condition. In this freedom quest, we are always given three choices. A rebellious refusal to work upon our glaring defects can be an almost certain ticket to destruction. Or, perhaps for a time, we can stay sober with a minimum of self-improvement and settle ourselves into a comfortable but often dangerous mediocrity. Or, finally, we can continuously try hard for those sterling qualities that can add up to fineness of spirit and action—true and lasting freedom under God. GRAPEVINE, NOVEMBER 1960 The Recovery Effect Podcast – Episode 17: The Road Most Trudged http://therecoveryeffect.com/podcast/podcast17/
  • “Courage and Prudence When fear persisted, we knew it for what it was, and we became able to handle it. We began to see each adversity as a God-given opportunity to develop the kind of courage which is born of humility, rather than of bravado. Prudence is a workable middle ground, a channel of clear sailing between the obstacles of fear on the one side and of recklessness on the other. Prudence in practice creates a definite climate, the only climate in which harmony, effectiveness, and consistent spiritual progress can be achieved. “Prudence is rational concern without worry.” GRAPEVINE, JAN 1962 Experience 60 Seconds Of Recovery - 60 Second Podcasts http://therecoveryeffect.com/podcast/60-seconds-recovery/
  •  True, most of us thought good character was desirable, but obviously good character was something one needed to get on with the business of being self-satisfied. With a proper display of honesty and morality, we’d stand a better chance of getting what we really wanted. But whenever we had to choose between character and comfort, the character-building was lost in the dust of our chase after what we thought was happiness. Seldom did we look at character-building as something desirable in itself, something we would like to strive for whether our instinctual needs were met or not. We never thought of making honesty, tolerance, and true love of man and God the daily basis of living. The Recovery Effect Podcast – Episode 14: What It Takes To Succeed
  • THERE IS A SOLUTION We, of ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, know thousands of men and women who were once just as hopeless as Bill. Nearly all have recovered. They have solved the drink problem. We are average Americans. All sections  of this country and many of its occupations are represented, as well as many political, economic, social, and religious backgrounds. We are people who normally would not mix. But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful. We are like the passengers of a great liner the moment after rescue from shipwreck when camaraderie, joyousness and democracy pervade the vessel from steerage to Captain's table. Unlike the feelings of the ship's passengers, however, our joy in escape from disaster does not subside as we go our individual ways. The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us. But that in itself would never have held us together as we are now joined. The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution. We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action. This is the great news this book carries to those who suffer from alcoholism. The Recovery Effect Podcast – Episode 1: Powerless http://therecoveryeffect.com/podcast/podcast1/
  • “Out of Defeat ... Strength If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that some day we will be immune to alcohol.  Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one’s old life as a condition for finding a new one. AA BB P. 33 & A.A. COMES OF AGE, P. 46 The Recovery Effect Podcast – Episode 23: Our Greatest Enemy, Part 1 & Part 2 http://therecoveryeffect.com/podcast/podcast23/ http://therecoveryeffect.com/podcast/podcast24/

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