Couples Recovering from Sex Addiction Can Reconnect

By: Dr. Georgia Fourlas, LCSW, LISAC, CSAT, Rio Retreat Center Lead Therapist There is an indescribable beauty in watching participants move into a deeper level of intimacy after struggling through the destruction of sexual addiction. Read More

5 Ways to Embrace Recovery at Family Gatherings

Home for the holidays means different things to different people. For many of us, it means resorting back to our younger self when we were living under our parent’s roof. We tend to revert back to our childhood roles, even if these roles were dysfunctional and never served us well. Read More

Beginning the New Year with Mindfulness

The New Year is upon us.  It is time to make those resolutions that will bring about happiness for us; losing weight, re-doing the kitchen, taking a class, exercising more, eating more vegetables…you know those resolutions…the ones we never get around to and, then,  add to our resolution’s list the… Read More

Mindfulness in Every Day Life and in Recovery

By: Joyce Willis, MC, LPC Have you ever driven someplace in your car and then couldn’t remember the entire drive or what you passed along the way? That’s an example of not being mindful that many people can experience daily. It’s the same routine and you place yourself on auto-pilot,… Read More

Practicing Gratitude Enhances Well-Being

By Dr. Jan Anderson, Psy.D., LPCC Studies show that the regular practice of gratitude can increase not just your well-being and happiness, but also improve your physical health and your relationships. I was in the audience as Business First publisher Tom Monahan went one-on-one with Yum! Brands Inc. President and… Read More

Letting Go of Resentment

The following is excerpted from a presentation, “Eliminating Resentment… Solidifying Recovery,” given as part of The Meadows’ Michigan Lecture Series on November 10, 2010, by Dan O’Neil, MALLP. What is Resentment? The word “resentment” has two parts: “re,” which means “again,” and “sentiment,” which is “to feel.” So resentment is… Read More

Decisions in Recovery

In “Fabled Truths and Family Lies,” published in the Meadowlark Summer 2010 newsletter, I wrote about a client’s experience with childhood sexual and emotional abuse, her skewed self-doubt, and her perceptions surrounding that abuse in her family of origin. Specifically, I addressed the challenges that arose for Leah as… Read More

Author to Reader: John Bradshaw on his latest book, Reclaiming Virtue

Note: this article was originally published in the Cutting Edge Spring/Summer 2009 Newsletter. John Bradshaw’s latest book, Reclaiming Virtue: How We Can Develop the Moral Intelligence to Do the Right Thing at the Right Time for the Right Reason, released April 28, 2009. Reclaiming Virtue is a very ambitious book. Read More