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Recovery Coaching:
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Author Archives: Melissa Killeen
20 Question Assessment – Is this a healthy relationship?
As a recovery coach I guide a lot of people in the “realm” of healthy relationships. Many ask — is this a healthy relationship? Some clients have not been in a relationship for several years, and are attempting to dip their … Continue reading
Posted in love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, pornography addiction, Positive Thinking, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction
Tagged healthy relationships, intimacy, marriage
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Disagreements are normal in relationships
Expect every relationship to have a disagreement along the way. Disagreements are normal in relationships. Disagreements, however, can trigger other feelings, such as loss of control, powerlessness, or feelings of abuse. Mix into this situation your partner’s personality, the triggers the … Continue reading
Posted in Family Dynamics, Uncategorized
Tagged anger in relationships, disagreements, disagreements in relationships, love, miscommunication in relationships, relationship
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Improve your relationship intimacy
Every couple wants to improve the intimacy in their relationship with their partner. How do you do this? Jeff Garson, a community minded attorney, psychotherapist and coach explores improving your communication with your partner to achieve intimacy. Jeff is also … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Garson Consulting, intimacy, Jeff Garson, Plymouth Meeting PA, Radical Decency Community, relationships
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A Call for Clinical Humility in Addiction Treatment
by William White and video featuring Chris Budnick The history of addiction treatment includes a pervasive and cautionary thread: the potential to do great harm in the name of help. The technical term for such injury, iatrogenesis (physician-caused or treatment-caused … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Family Dynamics, Gambling Addiction, opioid epidemic, Recovery Coaching, Uncategorized
Tagged addiction treatment, chestnut health systems, chris budnick, recovery, recovery advocacy, Recovery Management, recovery orientated system of care, RM, ROSC, stigma, william white, www.williamwhitepapers.com
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How Adverse Childhood Experiences affects long term health – a TED MED Talk by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, during her TED-Med talk presents the benefits of the Adverse Childhood Experience study and the substantiated affects the study has brought forth on how childhood trauma can impact the quality of one’s health and length of a … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, behavioral health, Drug Addiction, Family Dynamics, Gambling Addiction, mental health, Uncategorized
Tagged ACE Study, Adverse Childhood Experiences, CDC, Kaiser, Nadine Burke Harris
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Faces and Voices in Recovery Develops an Addiction Recovery Toolkit
Faces and Voices in Recovery Partnering with Members of Congress to Offer Comprehensive Addiction Resources Faces & Voices of Recovery, in collaboration with the Addiction Policy Forum and the House of Representatives Bipartisan Task Force to Combat the Heroin Epidemic … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Drug Addiction, opioid epidemic, Recovery Coaching
Tagged Addiction Policy Forum, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Community Anti-Drug Coalition, Faces & Voices of Recovery, House of Representatives Bipartisan Task Force to Combat the Heroin Epidemic, Legal Action Center, National Institute of Drug Abuse, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Shatterproof, the National Association for Children of Alcoholics, the National Council, the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids
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How do I get recovery coaching certification?
One of the most frequent questions I receive is “How do I get my recovery coaching certification?” The second most frequent question is “How do I get my peer recovery support-specialist certification?” A recovery coach and a peer recovery support-specialist … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Recovery Coaching
Tagged IC&RC, International Certification & Reciprocity Consortium, Melissa Killeen, mkrecoverycoaching.com
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Recovery Coaching Texas Prison Style
Kyle Gage lives in Longview, Texas, and he is a recovery coach. Longview is a little oil and manufacturing town a couple of hours east of Dallas-Ft Worth and about an hour west of Shreveport, Louisiana. The small town has … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Recovery Coaching
Tagged Clyde M. Johnston Unit Texas Correctional Institution’s Substance Abuse Felony Punishment Facility, recovery coach, recovery coaching a guide to coaching people in recovery from addictions
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The Sobering Center’s Recovery Coach- George Shea
The Houston Recovery Center The Houston Recovery Center and the Sobering Center, is located at 150 N Chenevert St, in Houston, Texas. The Sobering Center employs recovery coaches, case managers and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs). At first I thought a Sobering … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism
Tagged CA, CARE Connection Sobering Center Santé Fe NM, Dutch Shisler Sobering Support Center Seattle Washington, Houston Recovery Center, San Francisco Sobering Center, Sobering Center, Sobering Center San Antonio TX, Sobering Center/Inebriate Reception Center San Diego, Star of Hope Mission, The Sobering Center Redding
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Fortify-A free online program to help battle pornography addiction
What would be better than a free program for individuals 20 years and younger to use to battle their porn addiction? After all, statistics show that 93% of all boys have been exposed to pornography by the age of 18, … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Addiction Disorder, Pornography, pornography addiction
Tagged covenant eyes, pornography addiction, pornography addiction in youth, sex addicts anonymous, sex and love addicts anoinymous, sex and love addicts anonymous, sexaholics anonoymous
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Recovery Coaches to the Rescue
It is 5:30 am and a band of FBI and local sheriff authorities pull up to a New Jersey suburban house in a development not far from Philadelphia. Adorning Kevlar vests, and windbreakers with the yellow letters FBI on their backs, … Continue reading
Posted in behavioral health, Family Dynamics, Internet Addiction Disorder, love addiction, mental health, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction
Tagged pornography addiction, recovery coach, Sex Addiction, sex and love addicts anoinymous, sex offenders
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K9-Free and Effective Porn Blocker for MacBook and iPhones
As a recovery coach, I have been asked by many a porn addict, “what is an effective block to use on their digital equipment?” I say K9. The added bonus – K9 is free. But it is difficult to install. … Continue reading
Posted in Pornography, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged K9, porn addiction, porn blocker, pornography, Sex Addiction, Todd Love PsyD
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Why are Love Addicts and Love Avoidants or Love Ambivalents attracted to each other?
The last person a love addict should be attracted to is a love avoidant or love ambivalent. But all love addicts are attracted to love avoidants or love ambivalents. Why? In order to answer this we have to go back … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, behavioral health, Family Dynamics, love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, Sex Addiction
Tagged love addict, love addiction, love ambivilant, love avoidant, sex and love addicts anonymous
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Others in the Dance of Love….
A few more members are joining us in the Dance of Love Like Goldilocks, women (mostly) are all looking for the “three bears,” all in one man. Not too hot (average looking), not too cold (balanced ego) and is just … Continue reading
Posted in love avoidant, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged love addict, love avoidant, relationship addict, the love ambivilant, the player, the torchbearer
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The Dance of the Love Addict and the Love Avoidant
A love addict knows they do not want an emotionally unavailable partner, and the love avoidant knows they want an emotionally distant mate. Yet, the love addict and love avoidant still end up being attracted to each other. The love … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, love addiction, mental health, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged love addict, love addiction, love addicts anonymous, love avoidant, SASH, sex and love addicts anonymous, Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health
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The Dance of Love – The Love Avoidant
What is a love avoidant? The love avoidant will build relational walls during intimate contact in order to prevent feeling overwhelmed by the other person. The love avoidant associates love with duty or work. This coping mechanism is usually the result … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, love addiction, Sex Addiction
Tagged intimacy, love addict, love addiction, love avoidant, sex and love addicts anonymous
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The Dance of Love—What is a Love Addict?
What are the characteristics of a love addict? Scratch the surface of a sex addict and you will find a love addict. Scratch the surface of a love addict and you will find a love avoidant. This is a perplexing situation for … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, love addiction, Sex Addiction
Tagged love addiction, love addicts anonymous, love avoidant, pia mellody, Sex Addiction, sex and love addicts anonymous
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Child Pornography — Part Two
The Child Pornography Industry The pornography industry nets approximately $13 billion dollars of revenue in the United States, alone. Illegal child pornography revenue is around $3 billion annually and is one of the fastest growing businesses online (Top Ten Reviews, … Continue reading
Posted in behavioral health, Family Dynamics, Pornography, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged Center for Problem-Oriented Policing, child pornography, CyberTipLine, Enough is Enough, International Watch Foundation 2014 Annual Report:, Internet Watch Foundation, J Clark Baird, Jerry. Ropelato, My Kid's Browser, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, National Crimes against Children Research Center, National Criminal Intelligence Service, National Juvenile Online Victimization Study, This is your brain on porn, Top Ten Reviews
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Child Pornography – Part One
Possession of child pornography is a felony under federal law, as well as every state. Because I am a recovery coach, I know some offenders, and I had some questions. I wanted to know more about these viewers of child pornography. … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Pornography, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged child pornography, CyberTipLine, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, pornography, recovery coach
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