Today’s Face of Recovery – please meet Peter Taber! There is a great deal of confusion, stigma, shame and discrimination surrounding addiction, addiction treatment and addiction recovery. Yet those who have the disease of addiction (whether to illegal or prescription drugs or alcohol) and are in recovery live healthy, productive, engaged lives — the same… Continue Reading
Steps to Self-Forgiveness and Overcoming Guilt
Self-forgiveness and overcoming guilt can be life-changing, and for those whose lives have been affected by guilt in the course of their involvement with an addict | alcoholic or as an addict | alcoholic, both can be critical steps in one’s long-term recovery process. To help us understand this concept, as well as essential steps… Continue Reading
Resentments – a Path to Relapse 4 Addicts | Alcoholics | Family Members
Resentments – you know – those niggling or blaring thoughts that keep running the hamster wheel in our heads, swirling mind chatter about what someone else should or shouldn’t do or has or hasn’t done until they whirlpool in anger, frustration, getting even; until the resentment is the focus of our day and our night… Continue Reading
The Transformation Factor: Addiction | Trauma | Recovery
Addiction | Trauma | Recovery – guest author by Rivka Edery, L.M.S.W., explains what it takes to help a trauma survivor. If this individual is also an addict | alcoholic, it is especially important to understand this because trauma causes brain changes that can contribute to the person developing an addiction in the first place.… Continue Reading
Why Addicts | Alcoholics Lie, Cheat, Steal
Why addicts | alcoholics lie, cheat, steal – WHY? why? WHY?!?*% – becomes one of the many pressing questions that swirl through the minds of those who love them. At first loved ones are baffled and question themselves, wracking their brains to replay conversations and actions taken, “Maybe I misunderstood what he said when I… Continue Reading
Affordable Care Act Mental Health Coverage – Will It Improve Things?
Affordable care act mental health care coverage – will it improve the treatment of mental health, and if so, how? To help us understand the implications of the Affordable Care Act for mental health coverage, Michael Cahill, Editor of the Vista Health Solutions blog, provides the following guest post. Cahill has a degree in Journalism… Continue Reading
Parent Recovery Coach | Cathy Taughinbaugh
You may already know Cathy Taughingbaugh by her blog, TreatmentTalk, but Cathy is also a Recovery Coach – for Parents! I wanted you to know this because going through the early stages of diagnosing, finding appropriate treatment, finding help for self and other family members, planning for a child’s return to the family home or… Continue Reading
Face of Recovery | Jamie Lee Beals
Today’s Face of Recovery – please meet Jamie Lee Beals! There is a great deal of confusion, stigma, shame and discrimination surrounding addiction, addiction treatment and addiction recovery. Yet those who have the disease of addiction (whether to illegal or prescription drugs or alcohol) and are in recovery live healthy, productive, engaged lives — the… Continue Reading