“How are you going to keep me from drinking?” The simple answer is, we’re not! Despite all the treatment industry hype, the only person who can keep you from drinking is you. No medication, no “program”, no “higher power”, is going to do it for you or to you. The good news is that you [...]
Happy New Year! And Now For Some Good News to Start Off 2011. Changing Unwanted Behaviors For Good! Most people are surprised to learn that changing negative behaviors doesn’t require rocket science, magic wands, or “Steps”. Perhaps that’s because one of the most popular and least effective treatment methods is the Pixie Dust Method whereby [...]
And now for the usual Post-Christmas let down… Did Santa make the problem go away? We didn’t think so – but as a recent website visitor googled, “Should I wait until after Christmas to stop drinking?” Well. it’s too late to answer “yes” to that question, but not too late to pick another option. While [...]
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and here’s a link to our favorite White Christmas video!!! We’re taking a few days off before Christmas, but we’ll still be answering the phone for you to ask questions and make reservations. And if you want to take advantage of a client’s need to postpone, you can still come and [...]
“Three trips through ‘rehab’ only got me a label and an excuse – with your help I finally got a life!” We couldn’t have come up with a better definition of the difference between “us” and “them” if we’d spent a month trying. Now the only question for you is, do you too want a [...]
Why would you come all the way to Southern California to get help with your alcohol problems? Let us count the reasons: Our clients “success” rate exceeds 65% while traditional “programs” hover around 5%; We’re totally confidential and noone else is; We’re for individuals, couples, or families – no groups! We’re research and experience based [...]
We hope you had a Great Thanksgiving! Being thankful comes more from our attitudes than from anything else. Consider the passengers and crew of the recent Carnival Cruise fiasco. As is usually the case, most of the passengers and crew decided to make the best of a very uncomfortable situation – and one that was [...]
What’s the hardest part of leaving your alcohol abuse behind? In the case of our clients, it’s making that first phone call. How hard is that? We won’t disagree with what you already know – it’s damn hard! How do we know? Because you tell us both directly and indirectly. Directly when you do call [...]
Chardonnay – Designed For Women? You Bet! A recent client reported that she had been to one of those women’s sales party gatherings and that in the course of the afternoon twenty women went through thirty-five bottles of Chardonnay!!! What’s going on here? Adding to that question, 90% of our women clients report that chardonnay [...]
A recent visitor to our offices asked a question we’ve heard before: “If AA’s 12 Steps are so ineffective, why are 98% of all traditional treatment programs based on them?” It’s a good question with several contributing answers, the first of which is that while the “Steps” are a really ineffective “treatment” model, they are [...]