It was 5:30 on a Wednesday afternoon when a group of teenagers began filtering into the room. Each settled onto a large pillow arranged in a circle on the floor. In the center, a blanket held ceremon...

What if the very thing you're running from holds the key to your recovery? That’s the idea Carl Jung, the father of analytical psychology, shared with Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymou...

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 the ...

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 Eff...

 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 since I poste...

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 program tha...

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 it. You see, I was...

"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 me why the...