It’s not always rainbows and sunshine in early recovery. Gone is the myth, just because I've stopped using everything will be okay now. On the contrary, because you've stopped using or acting out on your addiction you will start to see the REAL wreckage of your past. All those feelings that […]
New Relationships
Through our using we came to believe falsely that we were self-sufficient; that we didn’t need anyone else, we couldn’t stand anyone else as long as we had our drugs. Through this thinking, our interpersonal skills and abilities to communicate with others were put on […]
How To Help A Drug Addict
The goal of an intervention is to get the chemically dependent individual to accept the need for help now. Three key facets need to be considered as a means of creating as successful an intervention as possible: Dynamic Factors: The abuse of loved ones, the […]
