Peter Marinelli

I’ve learned from past experiences that staying current with my relationship to God and spiritual practices were and are vital to not only sobriety to my life. The tendency for so many is to rely on old experiences to be current.  Our big book states to “grow in understanding and effectiveness”, so it begs the ... Read More

I reflect during this time of the year on where my life was and has been taken too. In June of 1988 I entered my seventh treatment center as I was suffering from full blown alcoholism. I had very little hope and much desperation. Interesting how being desperate can breathe life into hope. I had no idea if I was going ... Read More

Air travel can be fun and it can be exhausting. I think if folks were more mindful that they aren’t the only ones on the plane it might be more like fun, even though airlines seem to have no idea what’s going on. ... Read More

Have you been watching CNN or some of the other news networks? By the way I use the term news networks just for a reference. These folks make up news based on their own agenda. As Marvin Gaye once sang “Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear”. Why is this news station continually giving us background ... Read More

Thoughts on the Boston Marathon Bombing by Peter Marinelli As I like many of us watched the tragedy in Boston this last week, again I have to wonder why? Why do some folks still believe that violence and harming innocent people is the remedy to their problem? Over and over we see people killing people and wonder how ... Read More

Thoughts on our Women's Sober Living Program by Peter Marinelli As we approach the month of May, our Women’s Sober Living Program at FHE Health is about to become six months old. During this time we have watched miracles happen and the experiences have been uplifting. Women have come to this program with “untreated ... Read More

So often I speak with new folks who those who have been in multiple treatment centers about what they think they suffer from and sadly many have no idea. It seems the most informative answer they can offer is they can’t stop once they start. That’s all they know, but they don’t know why this is and worse why they ... Read More

I recently attended a conference and had the pleasure of being around some of our “good old-timers”. There were many.  Forty years sober forty five, fifty and fifty three years sober. There was a women who was sober 48 years standing there wither sponsor who had 49 years. It was so refreshing to hear these folks talk ... Read More