Topic: discharge planning

This is also an opportunity to work on an all-important issue in early recovery: personal boundaries.

You might as well write ‘I don’t want you to go to AA’ in big letters on the wall behind the therapist’s chair. It’s about that obvious.

AA and NA weren’t designed by professionals and they do not operate like professionally-developed behavioral therapy programs.

You can be firm and still leave room for someone in authority to make an exception.