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 [...]

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 [...]

 “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 [...]

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 [...]

By Dr. Tian Dayton Grieving Old Losses Losses that have gone underground for years, that have remained open wounds deep within the self, may benefit greatly from grieving out in the open with the support and understanding of others. We experience a loss of self when we relegate emotional wounds into a sort of psychic [...]

By Steve Davidson, PhD One of the most popular current forms of addiction treatment is Motivational Interviewing (MI), developed by Drs. Bill Miller and Stephen Rollnick. The MI system seems comfortable and useful for both therapists and clients. But we may also ask: “Can I apply the same principles to myself?” Many of the most [...]

Psychodrama Psychodrama allows complexes and conflicts to be concretized by casting group members to play roles from the life of the protagonist. It allows the protagonist to have a physical “encounter” with the self; to see and experience what he carries within his mind and body, so that it can be made explicit, concrete and [...]