Jolted Sober: Getting to the Moment-of-Clarity in the Recovery from Addiction

"In medicine, as in life, until the mind has been prepared to see something, it will pass unnoticed, as invisible as though it did not exist." - Ovid
It could happen at any time. You hear something, remember something, notice something, or even say something - and that's it. Suddenly, there's a kind of click inside, an Aha! For a split moment you see clearly, as though for the first time. And what you see enables you to stop drinking, drugging, overeating, smoking, spending, gambling. You've...