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I’ve heard self-righteous sinners call depression a self-pity party. They congregate and pray and sing away their need to swim in gallons of jack Daniel’s: in words and in songs they congratulate themselves because in a blink of an eye… Continue Reading →
The wind was both cold and strong when I set out on my morning’s run. I never have a goal; I clear my head and let the rise and falls of the terrain guide my pace. Today though, I couldn’t… Continue Reading →
In my opinion, people want to be accepted and loved despite being flawed. Whatever a given person perceives those flaws to be, to me, that’s THE basic human desire. To try to explain, let’s look at someone I’ll call, “Joe.” … Continue Reading →
In my opinion, people want to be accepted and loved despite being flawed. Whatever a given person perceives those flaws to be, to me, that’s THE basic human desire. To try to explain, let’s look at someone I’ll call, “Joe.” … Continue Reading →
This is the framework, then, from which I treat a person. Most treatment models require two things: 1) that an addict sees the consequences of their actions; and, 2) that the interventionist breaks through the denials that the addict has… Continue Reading →
The sad thing is that, though the Collective Capacity is universal, not everyone accesses, feels, believes, or even wants to partake of what it does. Because death’s negative energy is prevalent, despair grows within a person and replaces all choices… Continue Reading →
There are no easy answers: Two people can experience the same traumatic event and one becomes entangled and enmeshed within despair while the other chooses life and becomes whole. The questions as to how and why one dies and one… Continue Reading →
My experience’s in life have taught me, most of all, to be aware of power differentials and the way those power differentials develop and operate. As part of this awareness, there are two concepts that demonstrate the entire body of… Continue Reading →
It’s tough to want health for someone we love when he or she isn’t well. We pray and wish and hope that somehow health will overtake sickness in a blink of an eye. And when that sickness is addiction, our… Continue Reading →
A whole bunch of years ago, I attended a Play Therapy conference that taught me more about leadership during a crisis (and parenting during a crisis) that anything else I had studied to that point. Really, I haven’t learned a… Continue Reading →
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