For those in recovery, being honest can be difficult. In fact, it can be the single most important predictor of success in recovery. There is a reason it is so difficult. Recovery involves looking at our whole selves and being honest with others and ourselves about the reality of who we are and how we …
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Michael Herbert
This message is about faith, hope and Gratitude. I first would like to give thanks to my higher power I choose to call G’d. I can remember as a child growing up wanting to become someone famous for helping others! I was a rebel but was against using drugs and alcohol as a child. Due …
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Michael Herbert
Finding out later in life, what the causes are for the choices we are making, or have made can be stunning, to say the least. Reaching middle age and making the same choices we were making at the age of seventeen shows lack of growth and lack of maturity. We grow older and wiser but …
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Michael Herbert
Do you have a family member or loved one in recovery? Are you not sure what that really means and need help understanding relapse and recovery? Recovery Guide can shed some light on this process and aide families and clients as they learn coping tools, engage differently with their loved one and learn to establish …
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Michael Herbert
Many addicts leaving treatment do have an aftercare plan, but families tend to be offered very little. They are told to go to Al-anon or therapy, but there is no accountability and many therapists aren’t going to work with 4 or 5 members of the same family who are spread out all over the country …
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Michael Herbert
During the holiday season many families get together for dinner and reunion. For many the holiday season is a joyful time, for many others it is too traumatic to endure. The mixture of personalities can and often does bring about a mixture of behaviors. Old memories of events are brought to light and often make …
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Michael Herbert
There is a saying, “move a muscle, change a thought”. Recovery for families is not an intellectual process it is action. What is that action? Find someone who can direct you to the people and places where families recover. Someone who knows how to motivate the family and the addict, to take the steps needed …
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Michael Herbert
