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Recovery Coaching:
A Guide to Coaching People
in Recovery from Addictions
Second Edition
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Category Archives: Family Dynamics
What is a recovery coach?
In 2013, I published Recovery Coaching – A Guide to Coaching People in Recovery from Addictions, since then the duties and responsibilities of recovery coaches, peer recovery support specialists and professional recovery coaches have expanded significantly. In this article, I … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, behavioral health, Drug Addiction, eating disorder, Family Dynamics, Gambling Addiction, Internet Addiction Disorder, love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, opioid epidemic, Pornography, pornography addiction, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged Association of Recovery Community Organizations, CCAR, Conneticut Community for Addiction Recovery, medicated supported recovery, medication assisted treatment, peer recovery coach, peer support specialists, peer to peer support specialist, recovery coach, recovery community organizations, sober companion
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Lions, Tigers, Bears and the Yellow Brick Road to Recovery
This is a guest post by Steve Devlin, a recovery coach from Philadelphia PA, and a long time friend. I chose to post this over the Holiday weekend, because it brings me such joy, and brings back wonderful memories of watching … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, Anger, behavioral health, body dismorphia, Drug Addiction, eating disorder, Family Dynamics, Hunger, Internet Addiction Disorder, love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, opioid epidemic, Pornography, pornography addiction, Positive Thinking, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction
Tagged recovery, recovery coach, Steve Devlin, Wizard of Oz
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Getting through the tough times
As a recovery coach, I often see my clients need help getting through the tough times, without using, picking up or acting out. Recently, I personally encountered some rough patches in my life, so, I went to my library of … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, Anger, behavioral health, body dismorphia, Drug Addiction, eating disorder, Family Dynamics, Gambling Addiction, Hunger, Internet Addiction Disorder, love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, opioid epidemic, Pornography, pornography addiction, Positive Thinking, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction
Tagged Addiction, breath work, Buddhism, Buddhist Nun, Cape Breton Nova Scotia, chodron foundation, Gampo Abbey, mkrecoverycoaching.com, Pema Chodron, when things fall apart
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Why Can’t You Do the Dishes? Part 2
This week’s guest blogger, Jeff Garson from Radical Decency Group, shares with us a very common example of a partner/spouse/husband/wife interaction. A husband and wife are about to leave for work and his wife, looking at a sink filled with … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, behavioral health, Family Dynamics, love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, Positive Thinking
Tagged Jeff Garson, Philadelphia, relationships, The Radical Decency group
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Why can’t you do the dishes?
Guest blogger Jeff Garson from Radical Decency Group shares with us a very common example of a partner or spouse interaction. A husband and wife are about to leave for work and his wife, looking at a sink filled with … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, behavioral health, Family Dynamics, love addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged fight or flight, Jeff Garson, Philadelphia, radical decency, The Decency Group
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I am most vulnerable when I am naked
As a recovery coach, I approach my clients as a peer, as someone who has gone through the slings and arrows of addiction and emerged on the other side, in recovery and sober from drugs, alcohol and some behavioral … Continue reading
Posted in behavioral health, body dismorphia, eating disorder, Family Dynamics, mental health, Uncategorized
Tagged body dismorphia, eating disorder, Elisa Goodkind, jacky o'shaunessy, Lily Mandelbaum, oilivia campbell, stylelikeu, tallulah willis, what's underneath
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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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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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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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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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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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Ten ways of Improving Your Chances of Keeping that New Year’s Resolution
Make a list and think it through It’s that time and everyone is thinking of New Year’s Resolutions. You’re itching to get rid of that bad habit right now, but consider this: think it through. I know you have heard … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, Anger, behavioral health, Drug Addiction, Family Dynamics, Gambling Addiction, Hunger, Internet Addiction Disorder, love addiction, mental health, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction
Tagged AA, Charles Duhigg, Harm Reduction, Mary Ellen Coepland, NA, Relapse Prevention Plan, The Power of Habit, The WRAP Plan
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Believe Change is Possible
As a recovery coach, I work with people trying to change a habit. We work on finding different ways of responding to a trigger. For some seeking recovery, they want to find an easier, softer way. Others think willpower is all they need … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, behavioral health, Drug Addiction, Family Dynamics, Gambling Addiction, love addiction, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged Charles Duhigg, Nicotine Anonymous, Smokers Anonymous, The Power of Habit, Todd Heatherton
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Internet Addiction Disorder- What is it? What treatment is available?
Internet Addiction Disorder- What is it? Internet addiction disorder or IAD is also referred to as Problematic Internet Use (PIU),[i] Compulsive Internet Use, (CIU),[ii] Internet overuse, problematic computer use, pathological computer use, or I-Disorder,[iii]. IAD is excessive computer use which interferes with … Continue reading
Posted in Family Dynamics, Gambling Addiction, Internet Addiction Disorder, love addiction, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction
Tagged Behavioral Health Services Dual Diagnosis Unit at Bradford Regional Medical Center in, Computer Addiction Services, Cyber-Relationship Addiction, Dr Kimberly Young, Dr. Maressa Orzack, Illinois Institute for Addiction Recovery, internet addiction disorder, McLean Hospital, New Beginnings, ReSTART, the Internet Addiction Program, The Ranch, Uday Foundation
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Service keeps you sober — Research is proving this age-old slogan
Ever since I walked into the rooms, I heard the phrase “Service keeps you sober.” I already knew I was a helping type of person, in fact in my addiction it was called being a rescuer. So I stayed away … Continue reading
Posted in Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Family Dynamics, Gambling Addiction, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, American Journal on Addictions, Brown University’s Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies Center, Case Western University, http://www.helpingotherslivesober.org, Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, Maria Pagano, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
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On the Nature of Addiction and the Loss of Hope
Guest post by David Chapman The normal state of a productive and happy human existence includes a sense of hope. The nature of addiction exhausts all sense of hope. The sense of hope is based on the understanding that the process of productive … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, Anger, Drug Addiction, Family Dynamics, Gambling Addiction, love addiction, Positive Thinking, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged Addiction, david r. chapman, hope, John Maxwell, osher Lifelong Learning Institute, rutgers university
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