While You’ve Been Collecting Tokens at Your Meeting, Your Addiction Has Been Pumping Iron in the Parking Lot So, you’ve stopped drinking or drugging. The addiction seems to have gone away. Has it, really? Addiction takes cover sometimes when it feels threatened. It’ll hide in the bushes and come roaring out when you least suspect it.Continue reading “While You’ve Been Collecting Tokens at Your Meeting, Your Addiction Has Been Doing Pushups in the Dark”
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The Shrink’s Links: Journaling
Writing a journal has been a big part of my own life ever since I began to examine the inside of my head. I’ve used it to express how I felt when I couldn’t express it anywhere else. It’s been a way I can pin down rushing thoughts and wayward feelings. I’ve sorted through choicesContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Journaling”
Staying Clean is Not Enough. We Must Also Develop a Personally Meaningful Life
Some Things You May Not Know About Substance Abuse, Part 7 When you are thoroughly caught up in addiction, your priorities are clear; the drug comes first. Everything is done or not done in service of the drug. It’s the first thing you think about in the morning, the last thing you think about atContinue reading “Staying Clean is Not Enough. We Must Also Develop a Personally Meaningful Life”
A Reconciliation Case Study
Travis and Suzanne entered my office, sat down at opposite sides of the room, and immediately began to speak at once, competing for airtime. Travis was addicted to cocaine, Suzanne his long-suffering wife. The last time Travis used cocaine had been eight months ago; but at that point he had been repeatedly leading the familyContinue reading “A Reconciliation Case Study”
Keith Wilson - Counseling 