100 Recovery Reflections

For those of you who have shared this journey with me, today marks the 100th recovery reflection posted at www.williamwhitepapers.com. Here’s a recap of some of the territory we have covered.
- Private Grief to Public Advocacy (July 5, 2013)
- Critics as Benefactors (July 18, 2013)
- Myth, Story, and Recovery (July 23, 2013)
- Moral Panics, the Limits of Science, and Professional Responsibility (July 25, 2013)
- Recovery Durability: The 5-year Set Point (July 31, 2013)
- Helping Yourself to Recovery (August 5, 2013)
- The Work of Addiction Recovery (August 10, 2013)
- Recoveries Up in Smoke (August 23, 2013)
- Stigma and Recoveryism (August 28, 2013)
- A New Era of Recovery Support (August 30, 2013)
- Recovery Mobilization in East Africa (August 31, 2013)
- Recovery Stories before AA (September 6, 2013)
- On Hijacked Brains and Social Stigma (September 13)
- A Test of Recovery Management: Or was it? (September 20, 2013)
- Recovery for the Health of It (September 27)
- NA Comes of Age (October 7, 2013)
- Toward a Global Recovery Advocacy Movement (October 11, 2013)
- Recovery & Harm Reduction in Philadelphia (October 20, 2013)
- Addiction: A Question of Chronicity (October 26, 2013)
- Precovery: “And then the Miracle Occurred” (November 1, 2013)
- Passing of a Pioneer (November 14, 2014)
- On the Shoulders of Giants (November 24, 2013)
- In Praise of Patrons (November 28, 2013)
- More Varieties of Recovery Experience (November 30, 2013)
- What is Recovery? (December 5, 2013)
- Community Recovery (December 7, 2013)
- Personal Failure or System Failure? (December 14, 2013)
- The Masks of Addiction & Recovery (December 20, 2013)
- Recovery in the Wind (December 28, 2013)
- Anticipatory Grief and Family Recovery (January 3, 2014)
- State of the New Recovery Advocacy Movement (January 11, 2014
- Recovery and Justice (January 17, 2014)
- Recovery is Contagious Redux (January 24, 2014)
- Advocacy for the Lost (February 1, 2014)
- Addiction Recurrence after Prolonged Recovery (February 7, 2014)
- Amplified Recovery (February 16, 2014)
- Language Abuse (February 21, 2014)
- Waiting for Breaking Good: The Media and Addiction Recovery (March 1, 2014)
- Recovery Landscapes (March 8, 2014)
- Recovery Checkups (March 14, 2014)
- Shedding Skins in Recovery (March 21, 2014)
- No More Graduations (March 28, 2014)
- Stop Kicking People out of Addiction Treatment (April 4, 2014)
- A Grieving Parent on the Meaning of Parity (April 11,2014)
- Lessons from an Earlier Era (April 18, 2014)
- Radical Recovery Revisited (April 26, 2014)
- Reflections on AA’s Resilience (With Ernie Kurtz, May 2, 2014)
- Brain Surgery as Addiction Treatment? (May 7, 2014)
- Experiencing Spirituality (May16, 2014)
- Pioneer Voices (May 23, 2014)
- A Rendezvous with Hope (May 30, 2014)
- The Language of Recovery Advocacy (June 7, 2014)
- Volunteerism and Addiction Treatment (June 13, 2014)
- Recovery Advocacy and Personal Philanthropy (June 19, 2014)
- Year of the Dragon (June 29, 2014)
- 55 Recovery Reflections (July 4, 2014)
- Addiction Recovery and Intergenerational Resilience (July 11, 2014)
- From the Rooms to the Streets (July 18, 2014)
- Recovery for a Higher Purpose (July 24, 2014)
- AA Agnostica and the Varieties of AA Experience (With Ernie Kurtz, August1, 2014)
- Drug Legalization and Recovery Space (August 8, 2014)
- Recovery in an Age of Cynicism (August 15, 2014)
- The Power of Peers (August 22) Proofed and Ready for Posting
- A Tale of Two Men (Science, Spirit and Recovery) (August 29, 2014)
- Personal Reflections on Recovery Month 2014 (September 5, 2014)
- Treatment (By Itself) is Not Enough (September 12, 2014)
- Stigma and Service Integration (September 19, 2014)
- A Milestone for SMART Recovery (September 26, 2014)
- Listening across the Stage of Recovery (October 3, 2014)
- Stigma Reduction through Recovery Contact (October 10, 2014)
- The History of Addiction Counseling in the United States (October 15, 2014)
- The Recovery Closet: Reflections on Coming Out Part 1 (October 17)
- The Recovery Closet: Reflections on Coming Out Part 2 (October 22)
- Further Reflections on “Dual Citizenship” in Recovery (Bill White and John Kelly, PhD, October 31, 2014)
- Recovery Conversion (November 7, 2014)
- The Boundaries of Recovery (November 14)
- Predicting Addiction/Recovery Trajectories (November 21)
- A Different Kind of Evidence (November 28)
- Prison-based Recovery Advocacy (The San Quentin Story) (December 4)
- The Roots of Recovery Management (December 13)
- Recovery: Principles to Service Practices (December 19)
- Testimonies of a Mother and Father (Margot Head and Bill Williams) (December 26)
- Symbolic Firsts in Addiction Recovery (January 2, 2015)
- The Recovery Scholarship of Ernest Kurtz (January 9, 2015)
- A Person Tribute: Ernie Kurtz (1935-2015) (January 30, 2015)
- “Tough Love” Exposed (February 6, 2015)
- Day of the Asylum (February 13, 2015)
- A Rising Recovery Advocacy Movement in Canada (February 21, 2015)
- From Trauma to Transformative Recovery (February 28, 2015)
- Community Recovery on the College Campus (Bill White & Kitty Harris, April 7, 2015)
- Defining Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care (May 1, 2015)
- A Different Kind of Inventory (May 7, 2015)
- Recent Life-in-Recovery Survey Results (May 15, 2015)
- Tribute to a Recovery Management Pioneer (May 20, 2015)
- Stigma Reduction through Contact Strategies (Bill White & Tom Hill, May 22, 2015)
- Recovery behind the Walls ((Bill White, Chris Budnick, Boyd Pickard, May 29, 2015)
- The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2015 (June 5, 2015)
- Portraits of Recovery: “Hello, My Name is…” (June 12, 2015)
- An 80th Anniversary Tribute to Alcoholics Anonymous (Ernie Kurtz and Bill White) (June 19, 2015)
Thank you for your words of encouragement to continue these reflections.