The brutal deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, allegedly at the hands of their 32-year-old son Nick, tragically and dramatically brings the systemic failures of the current treatment practices and approaches for substance abuse, mental health and homelessness into stark relief. In a 2016 People Magazine article Nick stated that his first tripContinue reading “The System Failed the Reiner Family”
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Let Go and Let God
Part 4 “Someday surely we will see the principle underlying existence as so simple, so beautiful, so compelling that we will all say to each other, ‘How could we all have been so stupid for so long.” John Wheeler, Princeton University professor of physics from1938 to 1976. He worked on the Manhattan ProjectContinue reading “Let Go and Let God”
Believing in God is Delusional? Let Go and Let God Part 3
BUT, WHAT ABOUT: (After the Pink Cloud dissipates?) “The wars which had been fought, the burnings and chicanery that religious dispute had facilitated, made me sick. I honestly doubted whether, on balance, the religions of mankind had done any good. Judging from what I had seen in Europe and since, the power of God inContinue reading “Believing in God is Delusional? Let Go and Let God Part 3”
Let Go and Let God Part 2
When we are in the grip of addiction, we are both the abused and the abuser for… “we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on (in) self which later placed us in a position to be hurt.” BB pg.62 Invariably: on every occasion: always. “The devil’s voiceContinue reading “Let Go and Let God Part 2”
Let Go and Let God Part 1
A maid said to her mistress: “I notice that when you sit, you sit tight. You are all screwed up and tight on the inside. Now look at me. When I work, I work hard; but when I sit, I sit loose.” There was a real philosophy of life in that statement. WhenContinue reading “Let Go and Let God Part 1”
When You Change The Way You Look At Things….
Freedom from addiction is not, and has never been one size fits all. Today more resources and paths of treatment and recovery are available than ever before yet decades of bitter experience has clearly demonstrated though that whether it is classic 12 Step recovery, CBT, DBT, EMDR, Smart Recovery, Celebrate Recovery, etc. without engagement inContinue reading “When You Change The Way You Look At Things….”
Autism, Addiction and Me
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”