by A Women in Sobriety | May 22, 2014 | Addiction Articles, Benefits of Sobriety
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...
by Sally Rosa | May 20, 2014 | Addiction Articles, Sobriety For Women
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...
by Sally Rosa | Mar 18, 2014 | Addiction Articles, Sobriety For Women
Written By: Fiona Stockard Why Go To An All Women’s Treatment Center? Laura suffers from heroin addiction and an eating disorder. She goes to a traditional treatment center and is placed in a male therapist’s caseload. Not only does her therapist have no...
by Sally Rosa | Dec 9, 2013 | Addiction Articles, Recovery
Well, Does It? I often wonder if there’s quality, effective, and impactful substance abuse and mental health treatment. What I’m asking is – do clinical philosophy and client-centered treatment count more than money? People are dying left and right...
by A Women in Sobriety | Aug 2, 2013 | Benefits of Sobriety
Where Rubber Meets the Road Hopeless alcoholic and drug addict turns life around. What a great heading! Is it frontline news? Well, not in the Sun Sentinel. At certain times during my sobriety, I’ve felt there should be a parade in my honor. There should be...
