1. A New Way to Look at Substance Use For as long as human history has been recorded, we have used and sometimes misused mood-altering substances. When someone continues…
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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…
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The Changing of the Seasons By Clay Hightower, LICSW We have now entered a season that in many ways signals transition between one year and the next. The changing…
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"Meaning-Making Helps Make it Better" By Clay Hightower, LICSW One of the most difficult aspects of grief is how limiting the emotional experience can be on my behavior…
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"What We Do With Our Pain Matters" By Clay Hightower, LICSW Sometimes my difficulty with feeling excited about the holidays and connecting with the meaning is not simply…
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“What Does It All Mean?” By Clay Hightower, LICSW As I discussed last week in my post, many holiday symbols and traditions have shared meanings but may…
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“We Are Not a Dressing Family” By Clay Hightower, LICSW This year, I joined my partner’s family for Thanksgiving for the first time, after doing it…
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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…
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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…
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