Blog: Insights and Updates on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health

When I tell people that I've been sober for more than 20 years, they usually offer congratulations with a comment such as “we admire your...

Alcohol treatment practitioners have different views on abstinence. Some take the approach that it’s possible to have a goal of...

In 1969, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross described the five stages of grief. In my experience, these also characterise aspects of confronting...

All of us, presumably, would like to be at peace. Most alcoholics and drug users are restless. They can’t sit still. They’re not...

When we hit problems in life, whatever they might be, we need first to acknowledge that we don’t have all of the answers. This is...

In an earlier blog, we briefly commented on how Special Forces (SF) use meditation techniques as part of training and preparation (see...

Relapse is an important topic in alcohol recovery treatment. It’s not inevitable but it can be a serious setback if it happens. It’s...

Suffering is part of what it is to be human. The “art of living” (Discourses of Epictetus, 1.15.3) is in large part how we cope with...

We find ourselves in others. We come to know ourselves as others know us. That is how we find our identity in relation to others. It is...

We hear the cry of many, and perhaps we have done it ourselves on occasion – “what is the point of it all?” We do it when we are sick,...