Melissa Killeen
Hello and welcome to my new web site Recovery Coach, New York City!
I am Melissa Killeen, a recovery coach with over 25 years of recovery and 10 years of recovery coaching experience. I also wrote the first book on how to be a recovery coach. And I train others on how to be a recovery coach as well as work with recovering individuals willing to remain sober and fix the collateral damage addiction has caused in their lives.
Every week I will be publishing a blog post on this site. Sometimes I’ll come across an interesting insight, post or article that I will share with you. More often I will write my own posts, based on my experience as a coach. Hopefully, these posts will be helpful for those I coach or for other recovery coaches, therapists or professionals in the addictions treatment field. I invite you to subscribe to my blog and have it automatically sent to your inbox every week. Subscription and comment forms are at the end of each blog post.
To kick off this new web site and blog, I thought I would look into the scientific proof of a classic recovery acronym HALT. Hungry, Angry, Lonely and Tired. I was amazed that science backs up this ancient phrase, fully. Thanks to fMRI imaging, statistical and biological research, scientists have proven it is not good to make a decision when you are Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired.
In my weekly posts, I will endeavor to offer good ideas for remaining sober. Besides adhering to the HALT concepts, I will suggest following good orderly direction (GOD), and you will have nothing to FEAR (Feelings Every Addict Rejects).
Yours in recovery,
Melissa Killeen
If you are interested in purchasing Melissa Killeen’s new book, click below.
Recovery Coaching
A Guide to Coaching People in Recovery from Addictions
