As a person in recovery since 2016, I was not in recovery when my son was born February 9, 2014. He was the most beautiful child I had...

Be informed about cultural competencies of working with women in treatment. Rates reported to have increased 500 percent in women over...

This is an activity from our book: Facilitated Growth: Experiential Activities for Recovery and Wellness. I like to highlight activities...

Twice I have had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Drew Pinsky, M.D. Today I saw him on TV offering interviews about addiction and well known...

Join us for our November Addiction Counseling Studies Course. What are you doing to maintaining personal and professional cultural...

June 20th. The day my sister and youngest sibling was born. We are born into this world as loving innocent babies, curious in the world....

Suicide impacts me personally – I am the survivor of a parent who committed suicide. Any story of a life cut sort is a sad one,...

This week in supervision we discussed the therapeutic alliance. First the therapeutic alliance is critical as it establishes rapport with...

These last couple of weeks a topic which keeps coming up in both my personal and professional life is compassion fatigue. I was...

What are you doing to maintaining personal and professional cultural competence? What are you doing improvements when you find you are...

There are things I can change in my life; things I cannot. First we need God – or some connection with a spiritual being. It is my higher...