Blog Articles

I Can’t Believe What I Just Did! —Relapse

By Ken Wells - 12/03/2021

Series Two: Blog Eighty-Four “Slowly I began to recognize that many of the boxes I found myself in were boxes of my own making”— Melodie Beattie Relapse isn’t true for every...

Ten Tips to Working an Effective Program in a 12-Step Community

By Ken Wells - 11/30/2021

Series Two; Blog Eighty-Three Effective treatment for addiction recovery is oftentimes judged by the percentage of relapse that occurs in the first year of recovery. It has been written that an...

Graveyard Spiral into the Chasm of Death

By Ken Wells - 11/26/2021

Series Two; Blog Eighty-Two “You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.” -- Ray LaMontagne Addicts know...

When Things Go South

By Ken Wells - 11/19/2021

Series Two; Blog Eighty-One Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.—Napoleon Hill If you have lived long enough you probably have experienced...

Dealing with Doubt

By Ken Wells - 11/16/2021

Series 2: Blog 80 “We're our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful” —- Michael Strahan I...

How to Differentiate Between Attraction and Objectification

By Hadas Ron-Zarki - 11/15/2021

Let’s start with the obvious: It is o.k. to be wowed by another person’s look, be attracted to them. It is o.k. to desire sex; it’s o.k. to be sexual. It is...

Empathy

By Katie Beckham - 11/15/2021

Empathy. This word seems to be thrown around a lot, but what really is it? First, it is important to differentiate between sympathy and empathy. According to Mariam Webster Dictionary, sympathy...

POLARIZATION

By Ken Wells - 11/10/2021

Series Two; Blog Seventy-Nine Polarization is a problem in the world. Us versus them is a mentality that has always existed.  The criteria for who is in and who is out...