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Demystifying Addiction, the Book
Much more than a disease, addiction is a...
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Relational Recovery Book
Understanding the principles of building emotion...
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Intimacy: The Essence of True Love
Intimacy doesn't just happen. It's not a matter of...
Featured CEU
Relationship Recovery Training
"No (intimate) relationships during the first year of sobriety."
Makes sense. Stabilize first, before getting involved in a new relationship. But what next? How does the recovering addict gain the necessary skills? Where does he or she go for guidance?
This course focuses on basic relationship-building principles, pitfalls, distinctions and skills that will empower the recovering addict, or anyone else for that matter, to transform the quality of his or her relationships.
Ideally suited for health professionals, this course will enhance practitioners’ effectiveness when making interventions and educating clients on all relationship related matters.
Featured Book
Intimacy: The Essence of True Love
When you accept the premise that true love is essentially intimacy, you can begin learning and applying basic principles for creating intimate relationships. When it comes to attainability and sustainability, gaining some basic relationship knowledge and wisdom can be the difference between the search and discovery.
Never before has the process of developing a healthy relationship from the point of initial contact been as carefully detailed and explained.
Featured Newsletter
The Relationship Model of Addiction (I)
One of the latest developments in the field of addiction is the Relationship Model of Addiction (RMA). The prevailing approach to addiction for the past 50 plus years has been a medical-based model. When the American Medical Association established that alcoholism (which later became interchangeable with chemical dependency as well as addiction) qualified as a disease-a "pathological dependence," only objective or science-based criteria applied. Addiction was understood strictly from a medical perspective and only genetic, biochemical and behavioral factors were considered. The subjective arena was never broached and mental, emotional, psychological and relationship factors were virtually ignored.....