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Agencies and individual practitioners How would you like to reap a 10% increase in counselor productivity, avoid copyright infringement (a big problem in many treatment agencies), preserve agency knowledge in the face of employee turnover, provide education for interns/staff, and deliver consistency and competency in your residential, PHP and IOP milieus? Living Free Heath & Fitness...
Trapped in your own BS?
Dealing with those battles inside your head. Ever find your mind racing down a path you don’t want to travel? Catastrophizing about the future? Engaging mental gymnastics inside your head to debate points or events now irrelevant? Why do we torment ourselves so? My experience indicates the answer is this: automatic negative thinking. Sure, part of this emotional turmoil is related to post-acute...
Keep those donations coming!
Thank you to our friends and neighbors in Las Vegas for continuing to bring us some really amazing goods. Your tax-deductible donations are delivered to clients at addiction rehabilitation programs in the greater Valley - Salvation Army North Las Vegas, Las Vegas Rescue Mission. These programs fund food, lodging and treatment for those seeking recovery from addiction. This is not the only thing...
Education and Prevention
Quick reminder that we produce easy-to-understand, comprehensive courseware for clinical, non-profit, and corporate environments. Each "Module" has six components: PowerPoint presentation with notes Facilitator's guidebook with notes, learning objectives and recommendations for discussion groups Treatment plan template Exam and comprehensive answer key Client worksheet Client handout This is a...
Healthy Diet: Critical Component of Recovery
Want to learn more about why a good diet is a critical component of recovery? While nutrition and a healthy diet are important to everybody, they are especially critical to the healing and relapse prevention efforts of those recovering from addictions. Several important concepts to keep in mind: 1. Addictions deplete the body and brain of essential nutrients. 2. You can reverse this process by...
Nutrition and Recovery
I was asked a question in a group today, "Well what foods cause relapse?" (This was in the context of substance addiction.) My answer: Food itself isn't going to cause a relapse. That's not what I intended to convey. But eating a diet filled with processed sugars (versus the sugars you would get from eating apples or grapes, for instance) and unhealthy fats (versus the fat you get from nuts,...