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Nov 6, 20202 min read

No Two Snowflakes. An Experiential Activity

This is an activity from our book: Facilitated Growth: Experiential Activities for Recovery and Wellness. I like to highlight activities...

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Past and Present. Make your Passion your Profession.

Twice I have had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Drew Pinsky, M.D. Today I saw him on TV offering interviews about addiction and well known...

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Culturally Competent Addiction Counselor

Join us for our November Addiction Counseling Studies Course. What are you doing to maintaining personal and professional cultural...

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Authentic Self.

June 20th. The day my sister and youngest sibling was born. We are born into this world as loving innocent babies, curious in the world....

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Suicide. It happened to me too.

Suicide impacts me personally – I am the survivor of a parent who committed suicide. Any story of a life cut sort is a sad one,...

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Nov 6, 20202 min read

the grace connection

This week in supervision we discussed the therapeutic alliance. First the therapeutic alliance is critical as it establishes rapport with...

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Compassion Fatigue

These last couple of weeks a topic which keeps coming up in both my personal and professional life is compassion fatigue. I was...

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Culturally Competent Clinicians

What are you doing to maintaining personal and professional cultural competence? What are you doing improvements when you find you are...

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Things I Can Change

There are things I can change in my life; things I cannot. First we need God – or some connection with a spiritual being. It is my higher...

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