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What Makes Non-12 Step Holistic Substance Abuse Recovery Unique? Conventional addiction treatments that follow the 12-Step method have helped numerous people towards recovery. But many who complete these programs find that they still feel something is missing. The first rule of the 12 Steps states: “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.” This inherent belief in powerlessness sends the message that no matter what you do or how long

Shadow's work was first brought to mainstream attention through the psychologist and behavioral therapist Carl Jung. As per Jung, everybody has a shadow self, which needs to be integrated. The less the person integrates the shadow and expresses it openly, the blacker and denser it will be. Additionally, the shadow will often project its failings onto other people. The Topic Summarized: ·The shadow refers to those aspects of our personality that we are not aware of because it

Each word we speak or write has a life of its own, a vibratory signature that creates waves in the same way that a note of music creates waves. And like musical notes, our words live in communities of other words and change in relation to the words that surround them. When we are conscious of the energy behind our words, we become capable of making beautiful music in the world. If we are unconscious of the power of words, we run the risk of creating a noisy disturbance. Some

Everyday, another family is hit with the #trauma of having a loved one with #substanceuse or #mentalhealth challenges. The process of figuring out what is actually gong on is often slow and confusing. Family members are seeing things that don't make sense, they say what they see and the loved one denies it. Or, they are too confused to say what they see because it doesn't match the person they thought they knew. #Familyrecovery is a personal process more than a family process