The Importance of Accountability in Recovery
Written By: Fiona Stockard Blaming Others Before getting help for my addiction, I spent years blaming others for everything. It was always someone else’s fault that I drank and used drugs the way I did. “If what happened to me had happened to you, you'd use drugs like...
Picking Up the Pieces of Shattered Relationships
Written By: Fiona Stockard I recently celebrated my first anniversary in sobriety. I was in a deep state of regret coming up to my anniversary. Things were piling up. Those years in college when I'd done no work and had poor grades. That stage of my life when I should...
The Definition of a Negative Contract
Written By: Katie Schipper Negative Contracts and Women In Treatment Many of us enter recovery with a limited and almost always skewed version of reality. Honesty is a foreign concept. We've lived with so many lies that we can't tell what the truth is anymore....