Category Archives: mental health

Recovery Rising – A memoir of William L White

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Melissa Killeen

Recovery Rising is the memoir of foremost recovery researcher and advocate, William L White. It has just been released on Amazon. White, for over five decades has had different roles in the addiction treatment field, beginning in Chicago’s inner city … Continue reading →

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What is a recovery coach?

Posted on May 10, 2017 by Melissa Killeen

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 →

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Lions, Tigers, Bears and the Yellow Brick Road to Recovery

Posted on December 31, 2016 by Melissa Killeen

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 →

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What is a recovery coach?

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Melissa Killeen

What is a recovery coach, a peer recovery support specialist or a professional 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, … Continue reading →

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Getting through the tough times

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Melissa Killeen

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 →

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Recovery Coach Training Organizations – Free Listing

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Melissa Killeen

Does your organization want a free listing for your recovery coaching certification training? Every year this website updates the list of over 300 agencies, organizations and schools that offer certification training for recovery coaches working with people in recovery from addictions. This list receives … Continue reading →

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Why Can’t You Do the Dishes? Part 2

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Melissa Killeen

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 →

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I am most vulnerable when I am naked

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Melissa Killeen

  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 →

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The Top Ten Warning Signs You Are Talking to an Online Catfisher-Part 4

Posted on July 30, 2016 by Melissa Killeen

 How can you protect yourself from a Catfisher or an online predator? Why do they do what they do? Catfishers want something from you. These are people that are not motivated by love, but are driven by money, perverse sexual … Continue reading →

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The Top Ten Warning Signs You Are Talking to an Online Catfisher-Part 2

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Melissa Killeen

Are you talking to someone online? Do you trust them? Could they be a catfisher, a scammer, a scallawag or a con? I recently returned to online dating after ending a long-term relationship. With a profile depicting a self-supporting, intelligent … Continue reading →

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20 Question Assessment – Is this a healthy relationship?

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Melissa Killeen

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 →

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How Adverse Childhood Experiences affects long term health – a TED MED Talk by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Melissa Killeen

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 →

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Recovery Coaches to the Rescue

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Melissa Killeen

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 →

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Why are Love Addicts and Love Avoidants or Love Ambivalents attracted to each other?

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Melissa Killeen

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 →

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The Dance of the Love Addict and the Love Avoidant

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Melissa Killeen

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 →

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Ten ways of Improving Your Chances of Keeping that New Year’s Resolution

Posted on December 24, 2015 by Melissa Killeen

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 →

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Stop calling it behavioral health!

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Melissa Killeen

Stop calling it behavioral health! Does the term cause stigma and discrimination? By Robert Kent JD and Charles Morgan MD Reprinted from thefix.com, originally published on 11/12/15 When somebody is treated for smoking cessation, the care will probably be provided … Continue reading →

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