I presented a webinar this week titled: "Successful Recovery: A Family Guide To Peace Of Mind." The replay is now available on YouTube.
WEBINAR REPLAY: Successful Recovery: A Family Guide To Peace...
There's a Russian fairytale called "The Firebird," in which a hunter is faced with a decision to pick up a feather he finds laying on the path in front of him. His horse warns him that picking up...
What does Bill Wilson have in common with a Toltec Warrior?
This week in my Wednesday Woo! series my I gave a presentation titled "Managing Your Spiritual Energy: A Warrior's Approach To Personal...
The other day I did a fun little livestream in my private FaceBook group (@JimSavageRecovery) that took quite an interesting turn—and opened the door for a lot of stimulating discussion...
Over the past several weeks I've had numerous calls from frustrated parents who have been engaged in some form of counseling or treatment with a teenage child where substance use was definitely...
A METAPHOR FOR THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
The Journey is a rock musical I initially wrote to simply tell a story about addiction and recovery. But over the years it's evolved into an entire...
What does it mean when we say that someone's drug or alcohol use is a ... "problem?"
The first step towards successful substance use intervention is getting clear about what it...
The other day I listened to a client talk about her experience of checking her husband into rehab:
"They said they would call. And I went home and waited. A week went by, nothing. I had no idea...
Happy New Year!
I thought I'd start the New Year out with something sort of fun...
Now, I know some of you aren't even old enough to remember Monty Python. But for those of you who do, you'll...
I've worked in the addiction treatment industry for a long time—like over 30 years.
But I've actually been AROUND the treatment industry longer than I've been a professional in...
"What's this got to do with drug use?"
I get a lot of mileage out of the short video above in my work with substance use disorder clients.
I simply ask them to watch it, and then tell...
There's no denying that substance abuse treatment “success rates” can be alarmingly poor. It is an all-too-common scenario to see a client go through residential treatment for a month...