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Letter from the Editor – 27th Edition
Driving down the street, trees whose branches were previously bare have bloomed with that particular shade of Spring green that is so bright and vibrant, you can almost hear it. Flowering trees offer their blooms in a riot of pinks and whites and leave a floral dusting on the ground like a city-wide bridal procession. [...]

FORGIVENESSS INTERVENTIONS
Experiential Exercises for Working through Forgiveness Tian Dayton’s best-selling book, Forgiving and Moving On, is now an app, courtesy of Health Communications. Learn more here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/daily-affirmations-for-forgiving/id439405037?mt=8 Forgiveness is a process not an event. Rather than an endgame, forgiveness is important and beneficial because it motivates us to work through the powerful feeling and thought patterns [...]

The Four Levels of Transformation
There are four psychological stages associated with learning a new skill. It is easy to apply the principles of these stages to the levels of transformation that takes place in recovery. Not just recovery from chemical addiction, but also recovery from self-sabotaging thoughts and behaviors associated with obsessive and negative thinking. When it comes to [...]

Recovery Business Marketing Not Immune from Kickback Exposure
Many business people involved in some aspect of the recovery business world (e.g. IOPs, PHPs, Detox) are not aware of the punishing laws that apply to their marketing arrangements. Simply paying someone commission-based sales compensation without fully appreciating the applicable laws is dangerous and costly. The big federal law involved in the issue, the Anti [...]

Imagery For Kids™: 8 Powerful Healing Tools
Eric had headaches so “hot” and painful, he described them as cannonballs pounding on his head – until he learned to visualize breathing in an ice blue color to cool down his hot headache. Missy could barely get herself to sit at her desk and homework took hours – until she imagined Albert Einstein as [...]

A Tendency for Dissociation: Sexual Child Abuse, PTSD & Addiction
 “I am doomed. I felt shame. I felt that I am worthless and no one could ever love me – not even God. The only one that could love me is Lucifer.”  “I feel disgustingly helpless and dirty – it dominates everything.” “The courageous, carefree, happy, funny part of me was lost that day. I [...]

Lighter Steps: Addiction Treatment on the Trail
Drug and alcohol abuse, along with accompanying variations of promiscuity, anxiety, video game addiction and poor eating and hygiene habits, are disturbingly prevalent among today’s young adults. “Failure to launch” is an increasingly common term used to describe a son or daughter who is an adult chronologically, but still a teenager developmentally. It’s only natural [...]

Letter from the Editor – 26th Edition
Now is great time to focus on love (Valentine’s Day and all), and we notice that when we do, we feel more grounded and just happy in general. Smack-dab in the middle of winter, the cold, gray days occasionally have a numbing effect on our New Year’s fervor, but we encourage you to brew a [...]

What is the ACOA Trauma Syndrome
(Courtesy of The Huffington Post) Old pain that gets imported into new relationships is the hallmark of the ACoA trauma syndrome. The past we thought we’d neatly left behind once we got tall enough, old enough or smart enough intrudes onto our present and we are returned, in the blink of an eye, to childhood [...]