And for those of you drinking your way through unhappy and destructive marriages and other relationships.... When we began our practice here at Non 12 Step nearly a decade ago, nothing interested us more than the number of clients who were very successful professionally and yet who were also abusing alcohol to a considerable degree. [...]
When you're both abusing alcohol.... Ending alcohol abuse is tough, tougher when you don't have a supportive spouse, and toughest of all when you and your spouse are both abusing alcohol - the "drinking buddies" dance. For those of you in this situation, you not only have to contend with the loss your own drinking [...]
"Congruency," what it is, what it means, and why it matters to you. One reason many of us abuse alcohol is because our lives are out of balance. Sometimes this imbalance is between work and our home life (or lack thereof), or it may be between ourselves and a spouse or partner, or it may [...]
Happy Thanksgiving! As you sit down to dinner this coming Thursday, will you be thankful for your life over the past year, or will you be dreading the holiday season and the cloud your alcohol abuse has hanging over this and the other up-coming holidays? It doesn't have to be that way. When we're drinking [...]
"Traditional rehab" vs the "evidence-based, best practices, model." Traditional alcoholism treatment is based on AA and the 12 Steps and demand that you admit to being a powerless alcoholic. Evidence-based -- also known as "best practices", or AA alternative, or Non 12 Step based models -- are based on alcohol abuse being a symptom, and [...]
When the sabotage is relentless! Unhappily, not everyone is apt to be pleased when you quit drinking. Whether it's spouses, other family members, co-workers, "friends," or anyone else, you will probably have to deal with at least a bit of sabotage when you eliminate your alcohol abuse. Why? Because like you, others have derived benefits [...]
And how did Ms. D's work with us turn out? (continued from last week...) "I was absolutely terrified the first day I arrived at your office. I was also hung over since I felt it necessary to down my last bottle of chardonnay the night before. I felt ashamed and disgusted that I had let [...]
In early November, 2009, we received a call from a woman in PA who'd decided that it was time to fix a long standing problem. Six months later she wrote this review. It remains as timely and accurate now and then and we thank her for permission to run it once again as a two [...]
A recent client wrote to say.... "Sometimes One Just Can't Do It Alone" "As a self driven individual, all my life I have been able to get things done on my own initiative, never really needing the guidance or support of others. - I quit smoking one day and started running the next day in [...]
“I’ll quit after Halloween. Promise” We all know, whether we make that promise to our spouse, family, or ourselves, that “I’ll quit after…” morphs into “after Thanksgiving,” then “after Christmas” then “after New Years” then it’s on to “after the Super Bowl” and …….. It’s called procrastination. We’ve all done it. Repeatedly. Remember back in [...]