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Have you ever wished you could?
- End family conflicts
- Avoid losing your career
- Stop destroying your health
- Find a program that treats you with respect
- Stop courting another DUI
- Discover what will really work for you
If you answered "yes" to any of the above, there is a solution. 
Hi, we're Mary Ellen Barnes and Ed Wilson, the founders of Your Empowering Solutions (Y.E.S.) and our goal is to help you get a grip on your alcohol problem, get over it fast and get a better life.
Client Case Studies
Alan's health was crumbling and he and his doctor were both alarmed. He was 58 years old with borderline hypertension, decreased liver function, in the early stages of type II diabetes, and thirty five pounds overweight - all related to his alcohol dependence. He'd tried traditional alcohol treatment and AA without success and he wondered if there was any point in trying again.
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Connie had been an RN for over twenty years when her alcohol abuse finally cost her a very good job, and the two that followed. Three trips through traditional alcohol treatment hadn't changed anything, except the balance in her bank account. Now she was afraid to even apply for a job.
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Mike's 6 year old son turned to his 4 year old brother and said, "Let's play drunk!"
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Christy woke up when the cop knocked on her driver's side window. She'd passed out on the on-ramp to the freeway following an evening of matching drinks with her colleagues after work.
Obviously, each of these alcohol related problems needs to be fixed, but not by focusing on drinking, which is a symptom, not the real problem. For everyone who drinks too much, alcohol serves a purpose, and problems arise when its use gets out of hand. By discovering what purpose alcohol is serving in a person's life and creating better alternatives, we help clients build better lives and leave their alcohol problems behind.
Like ex-smokers, our clients become ex-drinkers, not "recovering alcoholics." Drinking is no longer an issue, concern, or on-going problem.
There are proven methods that will help. When you learn how to apply them in your life, you will be on your way to a better life, free from alcohol's power.
We realize that you are skeptical. After all, you have always been told that alcoholism is a disease and that you will need to be "in recovery" for the rest of your life. But there is no evidence to support that concept. Indeed, most ex-drinkers, like ex-smokers, leave alcohol behind as an interest, concern, or problem. Many, up to 40% according to National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), can even return to healthy moderate drinking levels.
You may be wondering how our approach is better than the 12-step program most alcohol treatment rely on. At its most basic, we focus on you and designing a solution specifically centered on your life - not on forcing you into the 12-step model that's never worked very well for most people. Success is based on motivation, support, and a belief that you can overcome your alcohol dependence to lead a life that is better without the alcohol focus than with it.
You have undoubtedly heard about the usual 30, 60, or 90 day residential alcohol treatment programs, and find it hard to believe that a 5 day outpatient treatment program can really be more effective. Overcoming alcoholism is about changing your life in ways that sustain you without your drug of choice. But merely taking a long vacation from day-to-day reality does nothing to advance that except to provide "programs" with an opportunity to indoctrinate you into that particular cult-like mentality. It's about advancing their agenda, not serving your needs. On the other hand, we believe in working with you to design a life that works, a five day process followed by 90 days of support. Yes, there is a bit of respite in those five days, but real solutions that work for you will always be those that work in your daily life.
Furthermore, residential and outpatient programs which include groups, AA meetings, and so on, all nearly guarantee that you will be publicly exposed as an alcoholic, whether you agree with that label or not. Our clients have no wish to be labeled or exposed, nor to have the stigma follow them for the rest of their lives. Our services are all individual, private and fully confidential. We help you put the problem away for good so that it won't came back to haunt you.
If you are ready to work with us to create a better life that isn't focused on alcohol, our program will work for you. Most of our clients, as one said, "get a grip; get a life; get on with it" and never look back.
As professional alcohol treatment counselors (whose personal histories include both alcohol abuse and family frustrations) we know that you are tired of programs filled with empty promises. We offer real solutions and tangible results.
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We don't like spam either, so we never, ever, release your email address to anybody for any reason. We hold all your information in the strictest confidence.
Our program is certified by the State of California
"What a difference a week makes! We sorted out my problems and started solving them. I find the weekly telephone follow-up really helpful and I am staying on track. Having been through several trips to rehab, I can say that your program is the one that actually works."
R.T. Edmonton, Alberta
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