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ARTArticleAddiction in Ongoing Recovery: Getting Acquainted With Middle GroundThe main task of early recovery is spent in trying to interrupt the momentum of the addiction to achieve sustained abstinence. Most of one's mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual energy is spent on that goal.
In ongoing, stable, sustained recovery, the recovering person is no longer struggling to maintain abstinence and is now able to use more of their energy not only cleaning up the debris from their addiction, but being able to consciously move toward being the person that they have wanted to be.ARTArticleAlcohol Awareness Classes Can Help Free You From AddictionWhat is great about being American? What do we have that people all over the world, including here in the good old USA cherish? In one word, the answer is freedom!ARTArticleAlcohol Awareness Classes Can Help You Face the FactsOne of the most famous phrases surrounding alcoholism is that “denial is the first sign.” Of course that is absolute hooey because there are millions of people who abstain completely from alcohol who would deny being an alcoholic. But the facts are the facts. First fact, life-long teetotalers never are accused of being an alcoholic. For many years I have been sober and yet when accused of being an alcoholic, there is no denying that fact. Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic!ARTArticleAlcohol Awareness Classes Could Help With Peer PressureHave you ever felt the effects of peer pressure? If you answered no to this question you obviously have lived on an island your entire life without ever having had human interaction! As a counselor for both in class and online drug awareness classes, I often discuss the nature and power of peer pressure with my students.
This article will examine peer pressure from the point of view of my minor in possession (PIP) students only. There will be a subsequent article where my students over the age of 21 reminisce on peer pressure.ARTArticleAll about Deep Breathing“Take a deep breath” you must have heard these words many a times but hardly anybody knows how it helps us. Breathing is very important part of our life. If we don’t eat we might survive for one week or if we don’t drink then we might survive for 3 or 4 days but if we don’t breathe then we can’t survive for more than 2 minutes. So let’s understand how deep breathing works and what are its benefits.ARTArticleAnger ManagementAnger is a healthy and natural emotion when expressed in a mature and appropriate way. However, when anger is left untreated and gets out of control, it can lead to child abuse, domestic violence, as well as physical and verbal abuse.rARTArticleAnger Management Specialist Certification – Professional Training in Great DemandThe world has never been more instantly connected or more complex in any time in human history. Wherever you look people are scrambling to achieve freedom, recognition, or success. Everyone it seems is operating in a hurry and patience is rarely observed.ARTArticleAre You A HO?"I feel like I have all of these gifts I want to share with the world," Karnie said. "And I keep taking trainings, and when I'm taking them, I think, I could be doing this! I really want to be teaching other people how to help others heal, and how to be happy, and how to have a great life!"
"That's awesome!" I said. "So what is getting in the way of doing this?"
"Well, I just don't really know how to do it," she replied. "I mean, I know how to help other people get what they want, but I don't know how to really market that."ARTArticleAttention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnosis: What a Relief!Being diagnosed with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as an adult can be such a relief…I know, because I wasn’t diagnosed with ADHD until I was 32! I was so excited that I called all my family and friends to let them know. Their reaction was, well…less than surprised! It seems I was the absolute last one to learn that I have ADHD.ARTArticleBecoming the Person You Were Always Meant To BeThe answers we are looking for in life are within us. Take for example a tree shading us from the sun. The tree originally came from a seed within the seed it knew how to grow into a shade tree. The seed did need essential ingredients, sun light and water to keep growing. With the essential ingredients the seed matured and grew into a shade tree. Similarly, if people keep growing and learning answers come to us, consequently, we mature and grow into the person we are meant to be. The danger comes when we stop growing and learning.ARTArticleBelief SystemBelief SystemsARTArticleBig “I”, Little “i”: The Real, Honest To Goodness, Miraculous, Perfected YOUBe Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.’ ~Lao Tzu
It seems we are always searching for ways to improve upon ourselves. We fill our minds with as many books, seminars, workshops, CDs, movies, lectures, radio & TV shows, programs, blogs and more to overflowing. We exercise and eat the right foods to strengthen our body, practice meditation to quiet our mind, and yoga to nourish mind, body and soul.ARTArticleBipolar II Disorder and Teenagers: Part Four -- Positive Coping SkillsIn the final part of this series, we continue with Wendy's story and discuss the positive coping skills that can help people with bipolar II lead successful lives.
We have come a long way in terms of treatment for bipolar conditions, and many people benefit from a combination of therapy and medication. Nevertheless, more research is needed in determining how people can manage this challenging illness. Here are several important skills that can help teenagers, and adults, with bipolar disorder:ARTArticleBipolar II Disorder and Teenagers: Part One -- The Many Faces of BipolarIn the first article of a four-part series, we will discuss the different types of bipolar disorder.
What Is Bipolar Disorder?
In general, bipolar disorder is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy and activity levels. Bipolar disorder is multidimensional in nature and is highly influenced by environmental stressors, and because of this, experts are now considering bipolar I, bipolar II, and cyclothymia as the "bipolar spectrum." Here are definitions of the different types:ARTArticleBipolar II Disorder and Teenagers: Part Three -- DiagnosisIn the third article of a four-part series, we'll continue to follow Wendy's story and discuss the difficulty of diagnosing bipolar II disorder.ARTArticleBipolar II Disorder and Teenagers: Part Two -- Wendy's StoryIn the second article of a four-part series, you'll see the progression of bipolar II through the story of Wendy, a teenager who grappled with the disorder. We'll also discuss the major symptoms of bipolar II -- depression and hypomania.ARTArticleBlood Alcohol Content and Your BodyAs a counselor both in class and online alcohol awareness classes I always discuss how many alcoholic beverages and what blood alcohol concentration (BAC) each of my students had when they were arrested. It is important for people to realize how alcohol affects their mind and their body and to understand what is happening as they drink and continue to drink. Maintaining a conscious reminder of the how alcohol affects your body could mean the difference between life and death!ARTArticleBreaking the Vicious Cycle of Destructiveness in Our LivesBreaking the Vicious Cycle of Destructiveness in Our LivesrARTArticleCommunication and RelationshipsCouple Counselling
Communication amongst couples is commonly poor when a climate of fear and mistrust is perpetuated through criticism, placating, blame, and scapegoating. In these circumstances the communication can become highly reactive, attacking, and critical. This leads over time to withdrawal, loss of hope, and marital dissolution. My main approach to counseling couples is to help improve communication and identify issues and resolve problems that hinder open honest communication.rARTArticleConfrontationsHave you ever had a situation where you had a person in your life, a co-worker, a friend, a partner, with whom you were having an issue but were choosing not to confront that person? Many people have issues with confrontations. They are scary. You are not sure what will happen. Or if it will even help! But one thing I can promise you, the situation will not improve if you do not share that there is an issue that needs to worked on!rARTArticleCounselling and Psychotherapy*
Psychotherapy is a dynamic process that provides great explanations to understanding and changing human behavior. Personality development begins during the first years of life. This means that children who are born into warm and empathic environments comprised of healthy caregivers, will in most cases, grow into healthy adults. If this nurturing doesn’t exist in one’s early environment, personality disorders can develop.rARTArticleCranial Electrotherapy Stimulation: A Comparison of Commercially Available TechnologiesDespite a rather exhaustive search of the literature and Internet, there is a scarcity of information comparing Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulator (CES) devices to one another in terms of mechanism of action or efficacy. While Cranial Electrotherapy devices may have markedly different waveforms, they all seem to have similar benefits for as of yet scientifically unclear reasons.ARTArticleCranial Electrotherapy Stimulation: Science and EvidenceIntroduction:ARTArticleCultivating the state OK-ness for Anger ManagementThe first thing many mother’s instinctively do when they see a child overcome with emotional distress is to automatically try and calm them down… to return to a state of "OK-ness" before beginning any discussions of triggering events or perusing a teachable moment. Why is it that they do this? Mainly because they instinctively sense that a lower level of emotional intensity is necessary prior to re-connection with the human capacity to be reasonable, rational and logical.ARTArticleDEALING WITH TESTING TIMES no 1Remaining Healthy, Happy and Positive during “Testing Times”
From Robert Elias Najemy’s newly released DEALING WITH TESTING TIMES
There are periods in the life of every person when certain events and situations demand greater inner strength, courage, faith, stamina, energy, understanding, optimism, inner security, and self-confidence. It could be a personal illness or the illness of a loved one. We might lose our job or savings. Another possibility is that we may need to work many more hours just to survive.ARTArticleDepression is DepressionRecently, one of my relatives stated that Dysthymia is nothing more than a mild depression, that I should do my research and I was making a big deal out of nothing. Nothing? Depression is nothing? Here’s why I wrote Born Mad on this rarely talked about disorder:ARTArticleDid I Really Say THAT? (Connecting Our Words To Our Experiences)"Jerk!" I said, annoyed. "I can't believe he just pulled out in front of you like that!"
My husband said nothing, but his hands tightened on the wheel. As we passed the other driver, I glared at him, wondering from what planet he had just come. Reckless drivers or thoughtless drivers are a bit of a pet peeve of mine -- particularly after my sister died in a car accident in 2004.ARTArticleDreams of DeathImagine waking up one day and knowing the exact day your Grandfather would pass away. It raised a question for me as, within the dream, he told me that we choose a time we are to be born and a time we are to die. He further explained that he could actually change the date of his death. He was doing this to accommodate my Uncle who was coming to see him.ARTArticleDreams: A Bridge To The Otherworld Activity of Supreme Significance!Dreams are as centrally exposed and driven as you make them. Either they're important or they're not. It's your night of esoteric surrender. However, dreams do mean different things to different people, depending upon the relevance one places on the content. If you are not interested in investing the time to study, energy to accrue the relative symbolism and most emphatically, simply can’t relate to the messages offered, considering them to be a bunch of hodge-podge nonsense, then that’s precisely what they are.ARTArticleDrug Addict - 7 Years Notice?I guess we all have tales of strange things that have happened to us in our lives and what follows is just one of the odd things from my life.