Finding Your Spirituality
Spirituality plays a pivotal role on the road to recovery from addiction. Developing a sense of a “higher power” can push us to make significant strides toward healing our mind…
The Dance of Addiction
The long road of recovery is sure to bring one thing: change. Good or bad, change is always uncomfortable and exhausting. We resist change, for better or worse, and in doing…
The Discovery Phase of Recovery
With addiction, pleasure and enjoyment become deeply linked with the drug or behavior of choice. Once a client stops the behavior they often feel that “something is missing,” or that…
The Secret to Coping: Aware, Accept, Act
Three, easy to remember, words that basically sum up "coping skills.” Try this out next time you are feeling upset or dissatisfied in any way. Aware - We have to have…
Sound and Vibration as Therapy? Yes!
Many people use music to help regulate their mood - a certain type to energize for a workout, another type for focusing at work, and yet another for winding down…
Book Review – In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate
As a mental health clinician working in the addiction recovery field, I highly recommend Gabor Mate's exceptionally well-written book on addiction, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. Mate,…
How do People Change?
“Why don’t you just stop?”“I wish I could change but I don’t know where to start!”How many times have you heard this from yourself or a loved one? Change sounds…
Try Out a Guided Meditation
One of the core elements of our program at Welwynn is mindfulness: being aware of the present moment in a non-judgmental way. Mindfulness is the first step towards any change…
“Coming Out” as a Person in Recovery
Michael Botticelli is a former Director of National Drug Control Policy, as well as a person in recovery from addiction and a gay man. In this talk, Michael explains the…
Connection as Medicine for Addiction
Studies show that rats placed in empty cages with the choice to drink drug-laced water or normal water will drink the drug-laced water until they kill themselves. On the other…