My 7-year-old son was bullied at school recently. Fighting off tears, he told me a kid punched him in the stomach "and it really hurt". He explained further that there were two boys and after the one punched him in the stomach another gave him an Indian burn (twisting one's arm separate ways, creating a burning [...]
I heard one of my recent program participants refer to my sober living home as "God's House". Coming from a very religious background I could easily see one of my active family members gasping at even the very notion that anything other than a building affiliated with the church could be assigned such a label... sacrilege!! [...]
You drink, drug, gamble, sex, lie, control others, rage, manipulate (or any other flavor of destructive behaviors) to the point that it has documented itself to be a negative element in your life and/or the life of those around you....... yet you keep doing it. To quote my brother 11 years ago (on my sobriety [...]
There is a consistent theme developing with those who do not make it in the Sober Living home. They blame others, bash the house, me, the program... anything other than themselves. It's disgusting and cowardly. The sad reality is that they will never succeed in their efforts to stay clean and sober much less life in general [...]
I was forced to remove one of my Program Participants from the sober living home yesterday and it had nothing to do with him using or drinking. The logic was based solely on the premise of horrible decision making (ladened with emotion) that put the entire house in danger. The worst part about this incident [...]
