Why We Only Accept One New Client Each Week Callers often ask about our policy of only adding one new client, or couple, per week. Granted, it doesn’t make us rich, but it does insure that you will receive the attention that changing your relationship to alcohol requires. It also allows us to invest in [...]
“Your Empowering Solution” Five years ago when we sat around discussing whether or not to combine our individual practices, we played around with what we should name it. We knew what we did, and what you might want, but how to describe it? We played around with acronyms and slogans and had brainstorming sessions and [...]
Yes, They All Lie As Mary Ellen noted in her Newsletter article, “Ten Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Sent My Brother Off To Rehab,” all 12-Step/AA based programs lie to you when you call looking for help. Why? First, because they don’t have anything to sell you that you can’t get for free [...]
Welcome to 2010! As a boy growing up in the 1950s, 2010 would have seemed unimaginably far away. Now my response is more apt to be, “How’d it get here so soon?” But here it is and a better question is this: am I living a more satisfactory life than I was a year, a [...]
Auld Lang Syne May 2010 Be The Year When Alcohol Abuse Ceases To Be An Issue Or Concern For You And Yours! New Years is always associated with resolutions to live a better life – promises to ourselves that most of us break before Valentines Day. Why is that? What happens to those good intentions? [...]
Happy Holidays! We’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all a safe, sane, and peaceful holiday season. We’d also like to thank our friend and collegue, Dr. Neill Neill of Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, for permission to reprint his thoughts from the following interview by Carrie Powell-Davidson that appeared in the Oceanside, B.C. [...]
Ten Things I Wished I’d Known Before I Sent My Brother Off To Rehab Almost 10 years ago, my brother was sinking fast, in the grip of cocaine and pot. My family asked me to find him help. I was not a substance abuse specialist, just a therapist, but I started looking. I stepped on [...]
Are You Tired of Being a Spectator in Your Life? Really, that’s what alcohol abuse reduces us to. Instead of being active participants, we become spectators, numbing our disappointments and nursing our regrets when we aren’t imagining grandiose successes that we’re never going to achieve as long as alcohol is our teammate. I grew up [...]
Last week’s Newsletter contained a link to the L.A. Times article You Can Cut Back and we encourage you to read it. Needless to say, this article engendered a flurry of responses, mostly hostile, everywhere it appeared. But it also elicited a few informed responses citing the research that supports the points the article makes, [...]
Happy Thanksgiving! We hope that you are able to enjoy the holiday weekend and all of the upcoming season. We are thankful for all of your support, comments, e-mails, and calls over the past year, and the privilege of helping you through many challenging changes. Thank you! Mary Ellen and Ed Sinking? Not Our Recommendation… [...]