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  • The Benefits of Family Therapy for Addiction

    The Benefits of Family Therapy for Addiction

    It is often suggested that individuals struggling with addiction consider therapy as a resource for their treatment and recovery. Individual therapy offers tremendous benefits in processing past, present, and potential future events, uncovering unconscious defenses and working to change negative behaviors. Individual therapy builds itself upon openness and compassion- it is a dynamic process that entails deep trust and intimacy between the client and therapist. Family therapy, however, offers a different angle to addiction issues. This kind of work activates and engages each member, defines individual parts within the addiction cycle, and creates a recipe for familial, rather than just individual, change.

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  • The Inventory – Finding out who and what you’re really not. – The 4th Step Process

    The Inventory – Finding out who and what you’re really not. – The 4th Step Process

    With the firm warning from my sponsor and the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous – “Nothing counted but thoroughness and honesty.” He handed me a notebook to write in and a couple pens. He asked if I had a quiet place I could spend the time I would need to get it done. Of course, I had the time and place. He had made it very clear to me that my very life was on the line. Knowing how many times I had been face to face with the “Reaper”, I certainly did not have any doubts about that. Guys like me don’t get to knock on death’s door as many as I had. I should have been dust years ago.

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  • Is There A One Size Fits All For Different Treatment Modalities

    Is There A One Size Fits All For Different Treatment Modalities

    Effective treatment for substance abuse disorder takes the whole person into account. After all, alcoholism and addiction are complicated issues, with a physical component as well as a psychological one. Sometimes described as a “spiritual malady” because of its complexity, substance abuse disorder is a spectrum disorder that responds to a combination of different treatment modalities.

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  • The Inventory and the Accent of Mt. Everest – Insights from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous and Great Sponsorship

    The Inventory and the Accent of Mt. Everest – Insights from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous and Great Sponsorship

    There is a great promise in our literature. It is one of those statements that can be good news for some and terrible news for others.

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  • Three Long Term Changes For Lasting Recovery

    Three Long Term Changes For Lasting Recovery

    Is there a magical formula for lasting recovery? If only! Sobriety, as many people have learned the hard way, doesn’t come in a pill, a bottle, a can, or a prescription. After putting in the serious work of getting through a treatment program, it’s important to commit to long term change in order to keep on the path of lasting recovery…

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