Recovery is very stressful—good stress and bad stress. You are learning to cope with self-centered thinking and realizing that being in recovery does not mean everything automatically becomes wonderful. And recovery is not easy, so that [...]
Rehab is stressful. What? You thought it was like a vacation? Far from it. First off is the stress of not using. Depriving your body of what it is used to, what it wants, and when [...]
From the beginning of recorded time until 1954, the world knew that man could not run a mile in under four minutes. Then, in May of 1954, the most interesting and incredible thing happened. A man [...]
Dear nonaddicted friend: “Why can’t they just stop?” Such a familiar refrain. Well, “they” may not be unwilling, just unable. At some point in all disease, the body does what the body does. A cancer patient [...]
My clients know once they enter my office and I close the door, they are no longer in the democracy of the USA. My office then becomes a dictatorship, and I am the dictator. The room, [...]
Our bodies are chemical factories. Feel happy about something, a little dopamine shower happens. Feel sad—well, you get the idea. This factory is always working and at the ready to do what factories do, which is [...]
So this is what it finally comes down to: you, your decision, your desire, and your belief that you are worth fighting for. Make no mistake, this is a fight. No matter what happened or didn’t [...]
Everyone, that’s who. The first time I heard the Serenity Prayer, I had accompanied a friend to an AA meeting because she had just admitted to me that she was an alcoholic and did not want [...]
I hate to break the news, but there is no more perfect time to quit than right now. That’s right. Now. Frightening isn’t it? Sometimes that is what the truth is. You can distort the truth, [...]
First, you need to face the truth of where you are, what you are doing, and where you are going. It is said that the truth can hurt, and maybe that is so, but the truth [...]
