Learning to Stay

What one can achieve in sobriety is deeply personal; it looks different for everyone. For me, the emotional challenges were far more difficult than the physical ones. Alcohol gave me a false sense of self. I felt free, uninhibited, as if I had finally broken the chains of shyness and insecurity. But that freedom was […]

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Therapists: peddlers of hope and how to choose one

The word therapy comes from the Latin therapīa and Greek θεραπεία, meaning healing. Thus, therapists are healers of the troubled mind and soul and peddlers of hope. Hope that you can overcome the ailment that is troubling you and disrupting your life. Yet, without the willingness to work through your problems, therapists can do little […]

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How to get clean from any addiction.

Sounds easy. Well, it’s not and at the same time it is, once you go through the inevitable stages. I know from experience and from studying my own addictive personality that once an addict, always an addict. I like to think this way to be sure I am well aware that I suffer this self-destructive […]

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