While the holidays were nice, we’re also glad to be back to “usual.” We like our work and all of you that we get to know. This new year also means having the opportunity to help add you to the list of people who have successfully left alcohol problems behind. Sophie Many of you will [...]
The Real “Steps” to Overcoming Alcohol Abuse Between us, Mary Ellen and I have over 30 years of experience helping people leave alcohol abuse behind. We use that experience, along with real research and our clients’ experiences, to create individual solutions that will actually work for you. Here are the “Real Steps” that make up [...]
January? 2009? How’d it get to be 2009? We’re not sure how it got to be 2009, but we do know that 2008 was busy and filled with ups and downs for all of us. The big “UP!” for us has been working with all of you from as far north as Alaska and Canada [...]
A colleague recently asked me for my opinion of the applicability of the “disease model” of alcoholism with regard to Native Americans. I knew she asked partly because my adopted children are Inyupik, from alcohol devastated families in northwestern Alaska, but also because I have worked with non-traditional ways of combating alcohol abuse for over [...]
Happy New Year! New Year’s is a few days away but we’ll be back in the office tomorrow refining our own goals for 2009 and working on new ways to help you reach yours. As you know by now, we’re interested in how goal setting helps us all achieve the changes we want to make [...]
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays! We hope that your holiday season is one of peace and joy, and a renewal of your life, whatever you believe. For our part, we embrace the season, ideas, and feeling that music inspires and we are especially fond of the White Christmas rendition at the following link. We [...]
We work with clients very intensively – four or more hours a day for five to seven days – and with a well defined presenting problem – alcohol abuse. Following this initial treatment phase, during the ninety days of follow-up, we frequently see family members sabotage progress once clients return home. Undermining progress is rarely [...]
We recently returned from a conference on alcohol treatment called “New Perspectives.” The conference, hosted by Edgewood treatment center in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, was, indeed, as advertised. Presenters echoed the same theme: the usual methods of “treating” alcohol abuse and dependence don’t work. While this isn’t news to some of us who’ve looked [...]
Our Holiday Gift to You We’ve learned a lot over the past 20 years and we want to pass the benefits of that on to you. This holiday season we want to add a special economic incentive to help you get and stay healthy. As our holiday gift to you, we’re rolling our prices back [...]
If you want to change or break a habit you also have to change the context which encourages and supports the habit. It’s never enough to stop drinking, or stop smoking, or lose weight, or do any of the other things we never seem to get around to. We all know how it goes. We [...]