Posts by Cornerstone of Recovery
With the help of sobriety, Water Liars’ Andrew Bryant finds ‘A Meaningful Connection’
“Pain shared is pain lessened.” That’s an old saw commonly spoken in meetings of various self-help groups designed to help addicts and alcoholics get sober and stay that way. The gist is this: By speaking of the things that weigh heavy on your heart … by allowing your recovering brothers and sisters to help you…
Read MoreOn new song, duo The FBR paints a stark portrait of alcohol’s ferocious grip
Before he met his musical partner Malarie McConaha with whom he founded the roots music group The FBR, Tim Hunter was in a relationship that almost cost him his sanity. In many ways, he told The Ties That Bind Us this week, it felt like being a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, except that the woman…
Read MoreDaniel Wieten of The Omega Experiment finds serenity in simplicity
For years, Daniel Wieten told himself he wouldn’t turn out like his mother. Family relationships are always complicated, even more so when addiction hovers over every interaction like an invisible harbinger of doom. As a musician whose band The Omega Experiment has explored those nebulous concepts through a sonic barrage of progressive rock with psychedelic…
Read MoreAn ‘Outsider’ no more: House of Pain’s Danny Boy O’Connor finds his calling
In 2018, Danny Boy O’Connor appeared in the teaser trailer for PBS’ “Great American Read.” Danny Boy O’Connor was 13 years old the first time he saw “The Outsiders,” and the film has stayed with him ever since. Growing up, O’Connor told The Ties That Bind Us recently, life was a series of one hard…
Read MoreThe unbroken circle: Country royalty Carlene Carter always finds her way back to the light
Courtesy of Marc Hauser Carlene Carter knows full well that the seeds of recovery get planted deep. A whole lot of addicts and alcoholics who find their way to treatment and self-help groups and programs may not stay clean and sober the first time, or the second, or the tenth, for that matter. But the…
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