sobriety
Clean and Sober for the Holidays by Chris Swanberg
Chris is a dedicated staff member who believes in the program of recovery which has taught him how to approach holiday festivities and keep his sanity. In this blog entry, he talks about how great it is to be sober and also how he prepares for holiday events where people will be drinking. read more...
Changing Perception by Jay Rau
Wise, wise words from Jay Rau, who works in our IOP (Intensive Outpatient Treatment Program). "Recovery is so much more than not using your drug of choice. It has to do with changing everything about your whole self. You must change the false beliefs..." read more...
Praying With a Feather by Vince Jones
Vince Jones brings some more of the spirituality he shares with our clients during lectures to the Recovery Blog read more...
AA Responds to the Recession
In this humorous entry sent to me by Vince Jones, he points out a very interesting new cost structure for AA participation... read more...
Above All: DO NO HARM! by Jay Rau
Physicians, nurses and everybody in the medical field swear to the Hippocratic Oath to ethically practice medicine. Certified alcohol and drug counselors are no different and are held to this same traditional oath: above all do no harm. We too are in the field of saving lives. We too have a responsibility to do what is best for the patient. read more...
Sweating in Sobriety by Jay Rau
Lisa M, a staff massage therapist turned me on to my first Sweat Lodge ceremony over a year ago and I’ve been “sweating” ever since. At first, she had to practically drag me there but now if I don’t get a monthly sweat in, I am the one who is dragging her. read more...
One Year of Treatment by Kelly K.
For many years I would get my family to help me get out of trouble which often included providing the means to receive treatment. As the years passed I burnt more and more bridges and slowly the reality of my situation became clear... read more...
Cotton Candy Sobriety by Vince Jones
Who doesn’t like cotton candy? It is one of those foods typically eaten at fairs, amusement parks, ball games etc. Cotton candy is a treat, part of the fun. It starts out as a weightless ball bigger than your head and unlike some candies there is no attempt to dress it up as anything other than what it is, pure spun sugar. It looks substantial on the stick but as soon as we rip off a piece and pop it in our mouth it melts to almost nothing, just air flavored with sugar and food coloring with no illusions to being anything other than fun food. Soon the reasons why we vowed never to buy it again come flooding back, especially if you are responsible for the clean up of the 8 and under crowd. We will be lured by it again in the future, blotting out the previous experiences until too late. Such is cotton candy. read more...
Cigarette Smoking is Very Common in the field of Recovery
A friend of mine who works here recently quit smoking after years of being a heavy smoker (he is in recovery himself with over a dozen years sober). read more...
