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Recovery Coaching:
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Recovery Contagion within the Family
By Bill White Addiction runs in families, but far less known is the fact that recovery also runs in families. Recovery Contagion is a phenomenon have captured my attention in recent decades and been the focus of numerous articles. Recovery … Continue reading
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What do I need to be a recovery coach?
What do I need to be a recovery coach? Continue reading
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Tagged CCAR, Faces and Voices of Recovery, IC&RC, iNAPS, mkrecoverycoaching.com, NAADAC, peersupportworks.org, recovery coach
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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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Recovery Coach Training Organizations – Free Listing
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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Tagged Melissa Killeen, mkrecoverycoaching.com, recovery coach, recovery coach certification training, recovery coach training, recovery coaching a guide to coaching people in recovery from addictions
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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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The Top Ten Warning Signs You Are Talking to an Online Catfisher-Part 4
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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Tagged catfisher, conartist, FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, internet predator, National Sexial Assault Hotline, National Sexual Violence Resource Center, scammer, stalking Resource Center
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The Top Ten Warning Signs You Are Talking to an Online Catfisher
Are you talking to someone online? Do you trust them? Could they be a catfisher, a scammer, a scalawag or a con? How Monica Draper, a 55-year-old, Ontario-based graphic designer lost $100,000 is not unheard of. How could she fall … Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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Tagged ACE Study, Adverse Childhood Experiences, CDC, Kaiser, Nadine Burke Harris
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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
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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
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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
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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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From Now On: Seven Keys to Purposeful Recovery
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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
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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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