Is Addiction Really a Disease?
The answer is that once addiction takes hold, it gets to be a disease. For example, if you are pre-diabetic and don’t do the things you should, you become a diabetic. If you continue to put [...]
Being Happier (Not Happy Just Yet, but on Your Way)
There is a course now being given at Harvard University that is being called the university’s most popular course. It is called positive psychology, and it is referred to by many as Happiness 101! The course [...]
What King Solomon Has to Say
King Solomon, the biblical king, was said to be the wisest man in the world. He wrote thousands of proverbs and sayings, and interestingly, many of them, if not most, are as profound today as they [...]
Who Am I Really? Who/What Is My True, Authentic Self?
This is the session my clients like best of all. I call it “the movie.” After doing a progressive relaxation (which I will describe at the end of this post), where everyone is truly relaxed in [...]
The Heartache of It All
Every nineteen minutes, someone dies from a drug overdose in the US. This is triple the rate of overdose in 1990, according to the Center of Disease Control. Stop here for a moment and let that [...]
Fear of Life without Drugs, Fear of Life with Drugs
Fear can be paralyzing, how much more so when one has to deal with complicated fear. Complicated fear has no escape route. No place of safety. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. It is [...]
Making History
What is history but a story of experiences? Each day we all add to our personal record. Good, bad, interesting, sad, whatever, it all counts as we continually go through life. Some events make us feel [...]
Part four: Introduction to parents
Dear parents: You think you know, but you don’t. “Not my kid!” Right? Wrong! If you think I am trying to scare you, you’re right, I am. Thousands of parents—good parents, educated parents, involved parents, aware [...]
Twelve Steps: Do You Need Them?
In a word, yes. Does that mean there aren’t programs that succeed without the twelve steps? Sure, but no other comes close to the success of the twelve steps. In looking over all twelve of the [...]
The Will to Recover
The will to enter recovery usually does not happen all at once, like a bolt from the blue or a lightbulb illuminating in your head. Oftentimes it is an idea that appears as a possibility, no [...]