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Finding your "missing peace" through meditation.

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Jean writes on the importance of including the body, mind and spirit in the healing process..

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Wisdom and insights from various addiction professionals.

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Darren Haber, MFT, is dedicated to helping people get sober, stay sober, and discover their true selves.

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Marisa Graiwer, MFT specializes in addictions, eating disorders, adolescents and interpersonal relationships.

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A Way Out – Early Recovery: What to Expect

by Guest February 20, 2008 | Recovery

Addicts are quite uncomfortable in their struggle to re-establish some form of physiological and psychological balance without the drug. The most significant threat to your relationship will be if your partner proceeds with recovery without you being involved in a parallel recovery process. Both of you need people outside the relationship to assist and support you through this readjustment process.

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Enabling, Co-dependency and Denial

by Guest February 10, 2008 | Conditions and Disorders

Our own growth might be due to those who loved us enough to let us experience the sometimes painful consequences of our choices or mistakes. We can pass the loving detachment on to others. The following is a description of enabling, co-dependency and denial as key systemic behaviors that inadvertently support addiction.

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Building Trust

by Guest February 2, 2008 | Recovery

Restoring trust is very difficult in the process of recovery. Most family members feel betrayed and violated by the practicing addict or alcoholic. Building trust is a process and comes very slowly. It takes only a moment to break or destroy trust but much time and work to rebuild it. The following are some tools to learn the process of trust for the addict and the family in recovery.

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Intervention: Reaching Out To The Ones You Love

by Guest January 24, 2008 | Treatment

Intervention is a powerful experience for both addicts and their families. It’s simultaneously the most difficult and most rewarding experience for a family to experience. Many families struggle with addiction for years and years before finding themselves at a point where they’re willing to change the nature of their relationships to the addict in their family. When the hurt for the family gets too deep, and it seems nothing can be done for their loved one, then it’s time to turn to intervention as the solution.

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Experience and Strength with Eating Disorder Recovery in Female Athletes

by Guest January 13, 2008 | Conditions and Disorders

Eating disorders and disordered eating are commonly experienced by female athletes, but sorely under recognized by coaches, teachers, parents, therapists and physicians. I use the term disordered eating to include sub-clinical eating disorders as well as eating disorders which meet full DSM-IV-TR criteria for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, eating disorder not otherwise specified, and binge-eating [...]

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