by Duane Osterlind | Feb 22, 2022 | Blog
Recovery doesn’t stop once you leave the doors of the treatment facility. Rather, you have to work on living a recovery lifestyle. It’s beyond attending AA meetings or saying no to parties. It’s about being mindful and choosing to be intentional in how you want...
by Duane Osterlind | Feb 15, 2022 | Blog
How do you develop the tools to attain recovery? Serge Prengel, the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps for Mindful Recovery, believes that while everyone is different, change will start to manifest itself through the power of a mindful pause. He also introduces this...
by Duane Osterlind | Feb 8, 2022 | Blog
The zero-tolerance that the system has put in place on their war on drugs is an antithesis of the help people need. When really, the goal is to get people in life, not just in a consistent loop of use. According to Dr. Benjamin Boyce, author of Dr. Junkie: One...
by Duane Osterlind | Feb 1, 2022 | Blog
What is the universality of the human condition? In his book, We Agnostics, Paul Schulte explains that a lot of work in Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Transcendentalism, Sufism, and Islam are all the same thing. This underlines the crisis of...
by Duane Osterlind | Jan 25, 2022 | Blog
When you have a history of childhood trauma, there are things that you just have to unlearn and reframe. But to do that, you have to bring awareness to it. In the case of Michael Anthony, author of Think Unbroken, he went through such an unimaginable childhood:...
by Duane Osterlind | Jan 18, 2022 | Blog
A lot of families are sending their young adults to luxury-based treatment centers that aren’t necessarily therapeutic. This doesn’t mean they need to be in a punitive environment. They just need to be in an environment where they engage in life and start...
