Blog Articles
Additional resources written by our PCS therapists.
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When Addiction Calls Your Name
Series Two: Blog Ninety-Seven “With carnage of heart and wreckage all about—the junkie worm, with con and cajole, tells me ‘there’s magic just one more time’. . .” Poem—My Experience with the Junkie Worm. –KW Religious people describe a prayerful relationship with God as personal. Isaiah the prophet cited that… -
Monkey-Minded Friendships
Series Two: Blog Ninety-Six “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” – Bob Marley I was at the Tucson Zoo a few days ago with our little 4-yr-old granddaughter Mo Jelly. She’s in a stage of social development… -
Sexual Objectification – I get it, it’s wrong but I can’t help it!!! Now what???
Congratulations, the first task was completed: awareness and ownership. Great start, don’t stop there. If you are sitting across the objectified person on the subway- move to a far away seat. If you are looking for their pictures on your phone- block their social media contacts. If you are staring at them… -
Shame, Shame
I grew up and still do listen to indie rock and one of my favorite bands Dr. Dog has a song called Shame, Shame. In this song Toby Leaman sings about the experiences of loneliness, “not needing any help at all,” and “avoiding any signs of life.” The messages shame… -
Friendships
Series Two: Blog Ninety-Five “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead Walk beside me… just be my friend” — Albert Camus Sometimes recovery is a very lonely road. The radical change required to end addictive behavior is dramatic. Addicts… -
Taking Time To Learn From Yesterday
Series Two: Blog Ninety-Four “Life is meant to be lived forward but can only be understood backwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard Many times people disconnect their past from their present experience. In the addiction recovery world, there is a reference made about walking around the elephant in the living room. It… -
The Answer to Self Sabotage in a Committed Relationship
Series Two: Blog Ninety-Three Codependency can suck out the energy from both partners in a committed relationship. Many years ago someone writing about relational fulfillment penned “1/2 x 1/2 = 1/4th, not a whole”. This mathematical reality applies to relational fulfillment. Someone in a couples relationship may reason that if… -
Creating A Picture of Lifestyle Recovery
Series Two: Blog Ninety “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau The holiday season is a time to reflect and contemplate. I want to… -
Christmas is for Presence
Series Two: Blog Ninety-One Are you in the Christmas spirit? In late October, the holiday spirit begins to build. Stores begin to feature Christmas trees, decorations and by the first week of November, emphasis on Christmas gifts are front lined in every retail store. For sure anticipation of the coming… -
On Becoming a Warrior
Series Two: Blog Eighty-Nine “Healing doesn’t have to look magical or pretty. Real healing is hard, exhausting, and draining. Let yourself go through it. Don’t try to paint it anything other than what it is. Be there for yourself with no judgment.”— Anonymous My brother Jimmy and my dad fit… -
Things We Need to Talk About But Don’t Touch
Series Two: Blog Eighty-Eight T.S. Eliot wrote, “We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” This is true about recovery. It is such a repetitive cyclical experience in so… -
Yes, You Can
Series Two: Blog Eighty-Seven “The great thing about the horizon of infinity is that there is no limit to how amazing you can become.” – Robert Thurman You can live sober. You can create whatever you want to be or however you want to live. Just because something is not… -
How to Learn from Indecision
“What do you want to eat for dinner?” “I don’t know, what do you want?” How many of you have had this exchange before? Indecision is a part of life. It’s crazy to think that we would know what to do 100% of the time, but what is behind our… -
Emotional Regulation in Children
Self-regulation is not a tool we are born with. According to the self-regulation theory when it comes to what we think, feel, say, and do, it is pertinent in that specific context to make a suitable decision when we have a strong desire to do the exact opposite. (Baumeister &… -
Commemorating a Loved One During the Holiday Season
Grief can feel heavy daily for those who have experienced loss in their life. Grief can often feel EVEN heavier during the holiday season for many. There is something about the holidays that can bring forth big and overwhelming emotions. The memories or traditions tied to this specific time could… -
To be Human
Series Two; Blog Eighty-Six “Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” – Wilma Rudolph Most people would like to be considered as great. It is disappointing to… -
Creating Something New in Your Life
Series Two; Blog Eighty-Five Holidays are times for reflection. It’s a season to slow things down, review the direction of life and to consider making course corrections. Sometimes in recovery, you get into a rut of saying or doing tasks that you tell yourself need to be done, but there… -
I Can’t Believe What I Just Did! —Relapse
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 addict. Yet, for most it has happened. Once sober you tell yourself ‘never again’ and you mean it. You’ve… -
Ten Tips to Working an Effective Program in a 12-Step Community
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 estimated 43 percent of all people who go to drug rehab successfully complete their treatment programs, while another 16… -
Graveyard Spiral into the Chasm of Death
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 all about the downward spiral of making bad choices. Industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails produced an album…
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