6 Quotes & Sayings By Keith Steinbaum

Keith Steinbaum is the bestselling author of The Sober Truth, The Sober Truth II, The Sober Truth III, and The Sober Truth IV. These books are part of his series on addiction. He has also written for the New York Times (Op-Ed), The Washington Post (international), Psychology Today (Online), and other publications. A frequent public speaker, he is also a regular guest on Coast to Coast AM, The Power Hour with DJ Whoo Kid, and many other radio programs Read more

He is the Founder/President of Next Step Recovery (www.nextsteprecovery.com), an online program that provides free self-help tools for alcoholics.

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He tried to get drunk, “to forget about life for awhile, ” as that old Billy Joel song once said, but the scotch couldn't anesthetize his painand provide a retreat from the reality of his latest failures. Keith Steinbaum
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I started to drink heavily, comfortably caught in the tentacle-like clutches of alcohol. Keith Steinbaum
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There will always be con artists, I know that, ” Warren admitted. “But that doesn’t mean clairvoyance isn’t real. Keith Steinbaum
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We did a Tarotcard reading. She told me different things, most of them depressing andworth forgetting. But what I'll always remember is her prediction of mydeath, and how I'd become a kind of ghost, ‘wandering’ she said, with a‘spiritual restlessness’. Keith Steinbaum
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He didn’t like the idea of leaving unfinished business behind. He had wanted definite answers about the heart attacks to be able to turn the page on who or what caused so many of his brothers to die. Keith Steinbaum