Internal & External Triggers
Triggers can be feelings, experiences, people, places, and things that you associate with your drinking or drug use. There are…
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Addiction Focused EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) has been internationally recognized as an efficacious treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as…
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Anger in Recovery
Anger is a call to action. Anger can be the entry-level emotion to other underlying emotional states. No emotion is…
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Living in the Present
There are times that we have to choose to be in the here and now and times when it just…
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Trauma and Substance Use
Substance use is extremely common in individuals who have trauma. In fact, the 2010 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related…
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Depression & Addiction, Co-Occurring Treatment
Depression and Addiction. Both depression and addiction can be complicated conditions and when they occur at the same time either,…
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Mindfulness Everyday
Mindfulness is defined by Jon Kabat Zinn as, paying attention, in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment…
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Why Self-Medicating Will Never Cure PTSD
People often shut down when under a lot of pressure, and that’s especially dangerous with post-traumatic stress disorder. Men, particularly…
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Taking Time to Be Present
You need to call that client. Check on the status of that report. What was it that your mom wanted…
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Does My Family Need Therapy?
One of the biggest misconceptions about substance use is that the person with the addiction is the only person who…
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