It was an emotional graduation on Celebrity Rehab this past week. The ceremony was a celebration of how far everyone had come, but the focus was on aftercare plans (I’m glad to see Jason Davis finally decided to go to a residential treatment center!). That’s because addiction is a cunning, deceptive disease—the only disease that …
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Celebrity Rehab: Learning to Enjoy the Little Things in Sobriety
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Celebrity Rehab 4 Alumni Share Their Experience Strength and Hope
January 22nd, 2011 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Addiction | Celebrity Rehab - (Comments Off on Celebrity Rehab 4 Alumni Share Their Experience Strength and Hope)On one of the last episodes of Celebrity Rehab 4 with Dr. Drew, past residents from Celebrity Rehab 3 came to the Pasadena Recovery Center to share their experience, strength and hope with the current residents. Mike Starr, Mackenzie Phillips and Tom Sizemore arrived at the center to share their experiences garnered from their recent …
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Celebrity Rehab: Learning to Live Sober is More than Cutting out the Alcohol and Drugs
January 17th, 2011 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Addiction | Celebrity Rehab | Drug Addiction - (1 Comments)The big debate the past two weeks on Celebrity Rehab has been whether an addict can have a beer—even a nonalcoholic one—and still maintain their sobriety. I’ve seen a lot of comments on the show’s message boards about this, and a lot of misunderstanding about why abstinence from all drugs and alcohol really is important …
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Celebrity Rehab: Was Leif Garrett’s Anger on Family Day an Expression of being Enabled?
January 2nd, 2011 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Addiction | Alcohol Addiction | Celebrity Rehab - (1 Comments)Things are getting tough for Leif Garrett on Celebrity Rehab. During family day, his mom was so loving and supportive. She said she’d do anything to help him stay sober. But when she said that, Dr. Drew pointed out that bailing him out of jail would not help him—it would only make things worse by enabling …
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How Celebrity Rehab is a Lesson in Boundaries
December 23rd, 2010 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Addiction | Addiction Discussions | Alcohol Addiction | Celebrity Rehab - (1 Comments)Boundaries, everyone needs them and no one wants to be in charge of them. In order for recovery to have a chance at success, boundaries are necessary. When watching Celebrity Rehab 4, you can tell that the Center has rules and regulations. They have to. Specific rules that the patients have to adhere to begin the …
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How Celebrity Rehab 4 Deals with the Effects of Post Traumatic Stress with Janice Dickinson
December 18th, 2010 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Addiction | Alcohol Addiction | Celebrity Rehab - (1 Comments)Post-Traumatic Stress Last week on Celebrity Rehab, you saw me have a very intense session with Janice Dickinson. (You can see a short clip at http://www.vh1.com/video/misc/606920/janice-dickinson-talks-to-a-therapist.jhtml#id=1654325.) Janice is coming unraveled, and very small things are setting her off in a big way. What’s going on here? Janice was subjected to terrible neglect and physical, sexual …
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Celebrity Rehab Behind the Scenes: Get me out of Here!
December 4th, 2010 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Addiction | Celebrity Rehab - (Comments Off on Celebrity Rehab Behind the Scenes: Get me out of Here!)One of the themes you often see at rehabs, as well as Celebrity Rehab 4, is that many of the clients are looking for an excuse to leave or a way to get sent home. Rachel Uchitel isn’t sure she should be there because she doesn’t have a “real” addiction. Frankie Lons wants to leave when she …
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Working on Celebrity Rehab Alligns with my Values
November 14th, 2010 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Addiction | Addiction Discussions | Alcohol Addiction | Celebrity Rehab - (Comments Off on Working on Celebrity Rehab Alligns with my Values)Now that Celebrity Rehab 4 is going to be airing, I notice I have butterflies in my stomach. That familiar feeling that are people going to be judging me again for my work on Celebrity Rehab. No one can judge me more than I sometimes judge myself for many things, but not this. I totally …
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Fame and Fortune Doesn’t Guarantee Anything When You are an Addict or Alcoholic
November 11th, 2010 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Addiction | Addiction Discussions | Alcohol Addiction | Celebrity Rehab - (Comments Off on Fame and Fortune Doesn’t Guarantee Anything When You are an Addict or Alcoholic)I spent my summer filming Celebrity Rehab 4 with Dr. Drew Pinsky and a host of professionals I respect very much–plus a cast of very courageous people who were willing to expose to the world the pain of their addiction and their passage to sobriety. The new season airs on VH1 starting December 1, and …
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