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Day 4: Strenghten your Good, Intelligent Habits
Day 4 of 12 Days of Emotional Sobriety Addiction can be thought of as a destructive habit that continues despite the negative consequences it creates. It’s possible to change addictive habits but it requires commitment and ongoing effort to find
Day 3: Structure Your Time and Energy Wisely
Day 3 of 12 Days of Emotional Sobriety I did a test a few years ago that confirmed that I have a personality that “abhors routine”. I chuckled thinking that in my addiction that looked like total chaos! In recovery,
Day 2: Take 100% Responsibility for your Decisions and Attitudes
Day 2 of 12 Days of Emotional Sobriety One of the common emotional deficits that alcoholic/addicts face is the tendency to blame others for their own errors or slip-ups. Sometimes we do this without even knowing, because we lack self-awareness.
Day 1: Increase Self-Awareness
Day 1 of 12 Days of Emotional Sobriety I want your holiday season to be the best one ever. Improve each day by staying in touch with your thoughts, feelings and beliefs and then focusing on the ones that support
Emotional Sobriety: How to Work Effectively with Addicted Partners
I recently taught a class for Dr. Ellyn Bader in her online couples training program on working with alcoholic/addicts on developing their emotional sobriety. I want to share some of the highlights of that class with you here. Addicts by
Sobriety Matters: 12 Tips for Celebrating Sobriety This Holiday Season
The best gift you can give yourself and your loved ones is to take your sobriety seriously this holiday season. Over many years I’ve learned, both personally and professionally, that material objects — whatever fancy things you might think another
Retreat and Refocus
Focusing on Your Aim of Life East = Inward A few times a year, I exit from my busy life running a therapy centre to go on meditation retreat. I’m here now studying under Kriyayoga Master, Yogi Satyam and enjoying
2 Key Tactics to Keep Couples Motivated
Are you afraid of hard work? Not your own hard work. Your clients’. Did you know the only way partners can expect meaningful change in their relationship is if they commit to ongoing strenuous effort? If not, you are not
Stay focused on Self Love this Valentine’s Day!
Stay focused on Self Love this Valentine’s Day. That way, if you don’t have a significant other, you can still enjoy the day because of the love you show to yourself. If someone else shows you love – that’s a
What Most Therapists Don’t Know
Get Couples Therapy on Track and Moving: What most Therapists Don’t Know I love working with high distressed couples because it challenges me as a therapist to grow and learn. I’m not saying it’s easy – it’s anything but. A
Can you receive as well as you can give?
Most of the attention this time of year is on giving – I get it. It’s the time for many of us to express our love and appreciation for others by giving gifts to those close to our hearts. It’s
Confronting Angry Partners can lead to big shifts…
To confront or not confront – that is the question I’m sure you have had those tense moments with couples when you ask yourself “should I confront this or not?” They are difficult moments and we often have a split
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