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What’s behind those fine-sounding terms on the website? Which provide useful information, and which are bells and whistles to enhance attractiveness?

The behaviors of alcoholics and addicts are so predictable because the disease follows a certain progression.

We don’t need to ‘cure’ social anxiety, only to increase the individual’s level of control over his or her emotions…

Reclaiming holidays doesn’t just keep them from becoming relapse triggers– it can also offer chances to live the joy in recovery.

“I don’t know why we bother. Hardly any of the stuff we predict ever comes to pass.”

Yet because the information is compiled by an outside firm, the program can trumpet ‘independently verified’ outcomes.

Close to 20% reported being in recovery from one or more behavioral addictions – especially disordered eating, sex and love addiction, and self harm…

Closure is a great aid to the process of recovery, as it allows you to shut the door to that part of your life and move forward to newer, better things.

He burned through more than a few sponsors before settling with an older gentlemen who’d gotten clean and sober following a career as a Baltimore drug thug and a stretch in state prison.

It’s a good question to put to a newcomer, in AA/NA or in therapy: “How much work are you willing to put into this process?”