Addiction Blog
Study Shows Life Expectancy Decreasing for White Women, Increasing for Black Men
A report released this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics indicates a one-month decline from 2013 to ...
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Rehab for At-Risk Professions: Addiction High Among Health Care Workers
While there is no field that has not been infiltrated by drug and alcohol dependency, health care professionals are at especially high risk for substance ...
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Hiding in Plain Sight, Cultivating a presence in your life
I recently heard this quote from a patient in session while describing herself during her active opiate abuse. I was struck by this, since many ...
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Fear Itself Is Not Be Feared
Have you ever felt a type of fear that cripples your attempts at change? Have you ever identified with fear as a dominant emotion and ...
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Providence Treatment’s 2nd Bi-Annual Silent Retreat
Dr. Greg Gable and Rev, Sandy Morris co-facilitated a Silent Retreat at Pendle Hill Retreat Center, Wallingford PA. Providence Treatment sponsored its 2nd bi-annual Silent ...
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Nothing happens to us. Learn rather than react.
Much of human interaction involves reactivity. When a person becomes more aware of themselves as a spiritual being, they begin to see how much they ...
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Addiction Does Not Discriminate
Heather Cook, Maryland’s first woman bishop in the Episcopal Church had a recent fall from grace. She was charged with her 2nd DUI and vehicular ...
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Stay In The Moment
We all too often subscribe to thoughts, feelings and images in our heads (which usually pertain to the past and future) instead of the reality ...
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Critical Look At 12-Step Programs
Psychiatrists Dr. Lance Dodes and Zachary Dodes (father and son) published a book offering critical look at 12-Step Programs in March 2014 called “The Sober ...
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Living Providence Value Of Accountability
What it means to you Accountability means we take personal responsibility and ownership for our actions, our decisions, and the effectiveness of our results. Something ...
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