Join the 5th Annual Recovery Today Series www.recoverytodayseries.com online conference sponsored by Soba Recovery Center. Sherry Gaba, Editor of Recovery Today Magazine will be interviewing 20 of the greatest transformational leaders and addiction experts of our time. Addiction does not just mean substance abuse but can mean codependency, love and sex addiction, debting, internet addiction, procrastionation and/or …
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The Law Of Attraction And Relationship Issues
August 11th, 2017 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on The Law Of Attraction And Relationship Issues)
For a love addict being single and alone is a crisis. These are people that rely on others for their sense of identity, where the relationship becomes the focus of their lives. Needless to say, love addicts smother the partner, which only causes the partner to pull away while the love addict clings on and …
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According to Harville Hendrix we are attracted to our Imago–what he calls our dream partner– an image of which we carry around in our brain. The Imago is like a puzzle. As we are growing up, every time someone significant in our lives stimulates us it becomes a piece of the puzzle–a memory. Even with …
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Lessons From Rehab: Run Your Girly Thoughts Through a Car Wash
June 30th, 2017 | Posted by in Body Image | Girly Thoughts | Women's Issues - (Comments Off on Lessons From Rehab: Run Your Girly Thoughts Through a Car Wash)
I am lucky to live in a community that offers a variety of spiritual experiences. Last Sunday, after I went to my formal religious observance, I attended a weekly spirituality group conducted by residents in a long-term alcohol and drug rehabilitation center near where I live. The theme for this day was Surrender. Singing, …
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What Do You Really Think About Yourself?
June 27th, 2017 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on What Do You Really Think About Yourself?)If you were to be asked to immediately write down the first 5 words that come to your mind to describe yourself, what would those words be? Would they be different if you knew you had to share them than if you were the only person that would even see the text on the page? …
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Is The Law Of Attraction In Play For An Addict?
June 19th, 2017 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on Is The Law Of Attraction In Play For An Addict?)It is common to hear addicts talk about themselves as if they were different than other people. They have often gone through so much and felt dehumanized so many times that seeing things work for other people is like watching a foreign film, they can’t understand the message and they don’t get the plot. In …
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Is The Law Of Attraction In Play For An Addict?
May 30th, 2017 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on Is The Law Of Attraction In Play For An Addict?)It is common to hear addicts talk about themselves as if they were different than other people. They have often gone through so much and felt dehumanized so many times that seeing things work for other people is like watching a foreign film, they can’t understand the message and they don’t get the plot. In …
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For Mother’s Day, Consider This: Is Your Mother Driving You To Drink?
May 12th, 2017 | Posted by in Addiction | Alcohol Addiction | Parenting | Relationships | Women's Issues - (Comments Off on For Mother’s Day, Consider This: Is Your Mother Driving You To Drink?)All holidays are stressful. It’s either the good stress of trying to do all you have planned for those you love or the dread you feel about again being in certain family situations that you felt you “escaped” as an adult. Or maybe it’s a combination of the two. As complicated as family gatherings are, …
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Relationship Red Flags
May 10th, 2017 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on Relationship Red Flags)Whenever we get into a new romantic relationship, it’s natural for us to be infatuated and want to spend a lot of time with them. For those of us that are codependents or love addicts, we can become dangerously obsessed. The problem is that we don’t have anything to compare ourselves to, so we can’t …
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