John Barleycorn

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November 2, 2012 John Barleycorn 4 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: LARRY’S STORY PART V

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Larry’s story: I was in jail and every inmate in there was full

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September 7, 2012 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: LARRY’S STORY PART IV

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Larry’s story: The day after the Jets won the Super Bowl, and beat

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August 24, 2012 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: LARRY’S STORY PART III

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Larry’s story: For the next 13 years I was the starting linebacker for

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August 10, 2012 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: LARRY’S STORY PART II

This weeks HTYH is a continuation of Larry’s story: I can remember to this moment how I felt after I

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July 27, 2012 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: LARRY’S STORY PART I

This is the beginning of Larry’s story: I come from the land of southern hospitality. All I ever wanted from

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July 13, 2012 John Barleycorn 4 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: DAVES STORY PART VIII

This week’s HTYH is the conclusion of Dave’s story: Let me tell you about my sons. I was told when

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June 29, 2012 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: DAVES STORY PART VII

This weeks HTYH is a continuation of Dave’s story: I started writing to my mother and sending her cards. When

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June 1, 2012 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: DAVES STORY PART VI

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Dave’s story: After I had listed my resentments my sponsor asked me to

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May 18, 2012 John Barleycorn 4 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: DAVES STORY PART V

The week’s HTYH is a continuation of Dave’s story: I asked an A.A. man to be my sponsor and after

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May 4, 2012 John Barleycorn 2 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: DAVES STORY PART IV

This weeks HTYH is a continuation of Dave’s story: My counselor asked me, “David where are you right now?” “I’m

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April 20, 2012 John Barleycorn 4 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: DAVES STORY PART III

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Dave’s story: We lived on a farm outside of Raleigh, North Carolina. We

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April 6, 2012 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: DAVES STORY PART II

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Dave’s story: I suffered from a hundred forms of fear, fear of being

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March 23, 2012 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: DAVES STORY PART I

This week’s HTYH is the beginning of Dave’s story: The age of miracles has not passed, they’re happening all around

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March 9, 2012 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: THE IMPORTANCE OF AA

While practicing my alcoholism, everything was about me first. AA taught me to think about God first, others second and

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February 24, 2012 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: STEPS 8 & 9

I would like to share a story with you about steps 8 & 9. When I worked Step 8: Made

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February 10, 2012 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: CINDY’S STORY PART VII

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Cindy’s story: I saw the people around me at A.A. meetings who were

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January 27, 2012 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: CINDY’S STORY PART VI

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Cindy’s story: I have come to believe that a benevolent God, of my

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December 16, 2011 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: CINDY’S STORY PART V

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Cindy’s story: While I was standing in that frozen parking lot staring at

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December 2, 2011 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: CINDY’S STORY PART IV

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Cindy’s story: Towards the end of my drinking I spent a lot of

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November 18, 2011 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH: CINDY’S STORY PART III

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Cindy’s story: After I started drinking alcoholically, I went down hill really fast.

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November 4, 2011 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Cindy’s story: I took a drink, the drink took a drink and the

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October 21, 2011 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH

This week’s HTYH is the beginning of Cindy’s story: My sobriety date is January 6, 1986 and my home group

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October 7, 2011 John Barleycorn 4 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH

This weeks HTYH is a continuation of a medical doctors story: The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous states that alcoholics

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September 23, 2011 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH

This week’s HTYH is the continuation of a medical doctor’s story: At the point of orgasm the male brain becomes

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September 9, 2011 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of a medical doctors story: In 1953, after a ten-year depression, Bill Wilson said

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August 26, 2011 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of a medical doctor’s story: My grandfather was the town drunk who died from

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August 12, 2011 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH

This week’s HTYH is the continuation of a medical doctor’s story: It’s not my responsibility to save anybody’s marriage but

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July 29, 2011 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of a medical doctor’s story: Whenever I sponsor somebody, I strongly suggest that they

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July 15, 2011 John Barleycorn 4 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH

This week’s “Here’s To Your Health,” is a continuation of a medical doctor’s story: When it comes to dealing with

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July 1, 2011 John Barleycorn 3 min read

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of an M.D.’s story: Because I was only working a three step program; I