What Real Recovery is Like
Apr 22, 2024
What is recovery? Recovery really is, at its core, the process of change. It is a living and active process through which people make long lasting changes in their lives. There isn’t an end date or a destination. There are stages to it though and everyone goes through it differently from another person. In today’s...
Stages of Addiction-Where are you clients in these stages?
Apr 15, 2024
Stages of addiction can help us understand how severe someone’s use is and if you need to refer out. What’s the difference between dependence and addiction? When does normal use move to risky use? On today’s episode we’ll talk about the 6 stages of addiction.
Managing Triggers is a Vital Recovery Skill
Apr 8, 2024
Triggers and cravings are a huge key to what helps addiction develop. It’s not just the reward pathways that drive addiction progression. Today we’ll talk about how triggers and cravings impact this process.
Liability and Risk When Treating Substance Use
Mar 25, 2024
Some therapists worry that adding substance use to their scope of practice will expose them to more risk and liability. Our licenses are super important to us and we want to protect ourselves. Today we are going to be talking about what risk there is, if any, when we take on substance use clients.
A Snapshot of the 12 Steps of AA
Mar 20, 2024
The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous have brought many into recovery and saved lives all over the world. Most people know that there are 12 Steps, but they don’t know what the Steps are and most haven’t heard of the 12 Traditions. Today we’ll be covering exactly what these pillars of recovery are and how they work...