How to Navigate the Holidays and Season Change By Clay Hightower, LICSW Around this time every year, I start having a familiar experience. I begin to have lower…
Pam and Steve were honored to do a poster presentation of The Star Matrix Assessment System and conduct a book signing of their book Natural Pathways of Recovery at NAADAC…
A plan is ever changing so accountability must be ever changing also. What works for a person the first year will not work in year two. Likewise what worked in…
Steve and Pam have taken their years of experience both clinically and through the research conducted by The Addiction Research Foundation and have co-authored their first book on recovery…
Is this normal? Am I crazy?I hear some form of these questions almost every day.Over the years, I have answered in various lighthearted ways that were mostly intended to sooth…
Evening Intensive is set to resume on Monday February 1st. 2 spots still available! Call 205-967-3277 What is it?Multi-Modal Recovery Process (MMRP) was developed by Steve Moore and is a…
An opportunity to let go of 2020 and community rituals to bring in 2021 An opportunity to let go of the resentments towards self and others and bring in forgiveness….
An opportunity to let go of 2020 and community rituals to bring in 2021 An opportunity to let go of the resentments towards self and others and bring in forgiveness….
Throughout this entire series on boundaries, I have reaffirmed and will continue to reaffirm that it is my right to set boundaries that ensure my safety, and that others do not get to dictate if they are reasonable or valid. While this remains true, it does not acknowledge the other side of that coin, which is that maintaining boundaries in relationships can create consequences in those relationships. As I stated in my first post, maintaining boundaries can create feelings of fear, responsibility, obligation, guilt, and shame (FROGS) for me. Being on the receiving end of boundaries also creates feelings. The most commonly expressed experience is rejection, which comes out as anger or sadness.
The 4th Horseman of Relapse – Stonewalling By Clay Hightower, LMSW “If I do not think about it, maybe it will get better.” If you have had a…