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What’s the difference? Maybe it’s in how confrontation is used.

Suppose you were in the audience listening to someone else deliver the talk. What would get your attention? What would you enjoy learning about?

In the early and middle stages of addiction, addicts may experience mild to moderate withdrawal symptoms without recognizing them.

Not so much ‘I share your pain’ as ‘I want to show you I understand what you mean.’

We certainly shouldn’t feel good about the damage we’ve done, but wallowing in useless remorse is a bad place to get stuck.

We’ll see the progress that was occurring even when the addict appeared, at the time, to be floundering badly.

Many good interveners—including some excellent professional intervention counselors—started out as primary enablers.

If perfectionism, long-held resentments, or the unreasonable expectations we have of our wonderful selves get in the way, we’re still stuck.

Practically every form of group devised has been adapted and put to use at some facility.

He’s able to describe complex phenomena in terms that, with a little work at least, we can understand.