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| Samantha Hoult |
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| The local beer that I'm currently drinking |
"From a woman who became a "full-blown alcoholic" at 18 to rough sleepers who drink hand sanitiser and mouthwash, thousands of Australian lives are ruined by alcohol addiction.
And it does not discriminate.
Samantha Hoult was a "full-blown alcoholic" by the time she was 18.
Samantha Hoult was a "full-blown alcoholic" by the time she was 18.
When she was 27, she was rushed to the emergency department with liver failure.
"The fact that the doctor said, 'If you have one more drink, you will die', it just hit me like a tonne of bricks," she said.
"And I knew that something had to change.""The fact that the doctor said, 'If you have one more drink, you will die', it just hit me like a tonne of bricks," she said.
Ms Hoult, now 32, has been sober ever since."
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| XXXX Gold and vodka, Samantha's daily choice? |
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| Gyton Grantley as Ruben Guthrie |
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| Gyton Grantley in the Bundaberg Rum commercial |
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| My Alex Grey coin, which I still have, unlike my gold wedding ring:-) |
Synchronicity #150: Noah Lampert Talks with the Greys ... Minus Allyson;-)
I can't stand having a hangover or vomiting after heavy drinking, so my brain is programmed to avoid such drinking, pretty much like the 'A Clockwork Orange' effect.
Although I am well aware that many fellow Australians do go way overboard when it comes to booze.
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| 'A Clockwork Orange' |
Jung once treated an American patient (Rowland Hazard III), suffering from chronic alcoholism. After working with the patient for some time and achieving no significant progress, Jung told the man that his alcoholic condition was near to hopeless, save only the possibility of a spiritual experience.
Jung noted that, occasionally, such experiences had been known to reform alcoholics when all other options had failed.
Hazard took Jung's advice seriously and set about seeking a personal, spiritual experience.
Hazard took Jung's advice seriously and set about seeking a personal, spiritual experience.
He returned home to the United States and joined a First-Century Christian evangelical movement known as the Oxford Group (later known as Moral Re-Armament).
He also told other alcoholics what Jung had told him about the importance of a spiritual experience.
One of the alcoholics he brought into the Oxford Group was Ebby Thacher, a long-time friend and drinking buddy of Bill Wilson, later co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).
Thacher told Wilson about the Oxford Group and, through them, Wilson became aware of Hazard's experience with Jung.
The influence of Jung thus indirectly found its way into the formation of Alcoholics Anonymous, the original twelve-step program.
The above claims are documented in the letters of Jung and Bill Wilson, excerpts of which can be found in Pass It On, published by Alcoholics Anonymous.
The above claims are documented in the letters of Jung and Bill Wilson, excerpts of which can be found in Pass It On, published by Alcoholics Anonymous.
Although the detail of this story is disputed by some historians, Jung himself discussed an Oxford Group member, who may have been the same person, in talks given around 1940.
The remarks were distributed privately in transcript form, from shorthand taken by an attender (Jung reportedly approved the transcript), and later recorded in Volume 18 of his Collected Works, The Symbolic Life."
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| The final scene of the movie 'Bronson' |
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| Bronson in solitary in the movie 'Bronson' |
Cheers.
UPDATE: Oct(s)ober 5th, 2018
Now in recovery, 46-year-old Affleck says the work is never over
""Battling any addiction is a lifelong and difficult struggle. Because of that, one is never really in or out of treatment. It is a full-time commitment," he wrote on Instagram."
Need I write anymore?-)
UPDATE: 2018
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