Experiential Exercises for Working through Forgiveness Tian Dayton’s best-selling book, Forgiving and Moving On, is now an app, courtesy of Health Communications. Learn more here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/daily-affirmations-for-forgiving/id439405037?mt=8 Forgiveness is a process not an event. Rather than an endgame, forgiveness is important and beneficial because it motivates us to work through the powerful feeling and thought patterns [...]

There are four psychological stages associated with learning a new skill. It is easy to apply the principles of these stages to the levels of transformation that takes place in recovery. Not just recovery from chemical addiction, but also recovery from self-sabotaging thoughts and behaviors associated with obsessive and negative thinking. When it comes to [...]

Many business people involved in some aspect of the recovery business world (e.g. IOPs, PHPs, Detox) are not aware of the punishing laws that apply to their marketing arrangements. Simply paying someone commission-based sales compensation without fully appreciating the applicable laws is dangerous and costly. The big federal law involved in the issue, the Anti [...]

Eric had headaches so “hot” and painful, he described them as cannonballs pounding on his head – until he learned to visualize breathing in an ice blue color to cool down his hot headache. Missy could barely get herself to sit at her desk and homework took hours – until she imagined Albert Einstein as [...]

 “I am doomed. I felt shame. I felt that I am worthless and no one could ever love me – not even God. The only one that could love me is Lucifer.”  “I feel disgustingly helpless and dirty – it dominates everything.” “The courageous, carefree, happy, funny part of me was lost that day. I [...]

Drug and alcohol abuse, along with accompanying variations of promiscuity, anxiety, video game addiction and poor eating and hygiene habits, are disturbingly prevalent among today’s young adults. “Failure to launch” is an increasingly common term used to describe a son or daughter who is an adult chronologically, but still a teenager developmentally. It’s only natural [...]

(Courtesy of The Huffington Post) Old pain that gets imported into new relationships is the hallmark of the ACoA trauma syndrome. The past we thought we’d neatly left behind once we got tall enough, old enough or smart enough intrudes onto our present and we are returned, in the blink of an eye, to childhood [...]

“You got no chance, but use it” ~ movie title by Werner Herzog Alcoholism is not about the type of substance used, be it powder, pill, or liquid. It doesn’t matter how it’s done.   The ism is about being a stranger to planet earth, ill-equipped to care for the body given, ignorant to what [...]

I believe that life is meant to be lived to the fullest. For me, the term fullest has changed significantly over the past three decades. Before my injury in a construction accident more than 28 years ago, my definition included opening my own Karate Dojo and teaching other people the art I had learned to [...]

All addictive behaviors have at least these two things in common: (1) they help people cut off painful feelings; and (2) they are strongly influenced or controlled by a destructive thought process that both seduces the person into the behavior and punishes them for indulging. Like a dance, an addiction finds a pattern by which [...]