Alcoholic Rehab Centers

Discussion of behaviours to observe to tell if you or a loved one may have an alcohol problem that requires treatment. Motivation to begin treatment is important and positive benefits are discussed.

Experiencing Lucid Dreams: Expanding Our Lives Through Lucid Dreaming

An in-depth discussion of Lucid Dreaming.

Addicted to Your Pleasure and Pain are You? Come on, Break Free!

Addiction can be a tricky one. There is the build up and the high with its rush and then there is the low and the guilt and shame and feeling so stupid. We are addicted to pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's the pain that we get from our addiction that is the stronger addiction. With mentions of my homosexual behaviuor, my addiction to prostitues for 20 years, and a few years with horse punting, I am a man of my addictions. Free of sleeping with men, free of sleeping with sex workers, free of gambling, perhaps I have some answers you might want to share with your loved ones. Or perhaps just a story that can bring someone you know to hope for their own recovery.

Overcome Addiction to Porn

Are you addicted to porn and have realized it is a bad habit that you don’t need? Have you recently been embarrassed because of your addiction to porn? Overcome your addiction to porn today!

The Social Nature of Alcoholism

For many, alcohol is a way to socialize and enjoy the company of others. But for many users, the social drink turns into a solitary drink, and the social drinker may earn the name of alcoholic. Alcohol has become a destructive force.

12 Step Quotes and Sayings, II

Before recovery, I would use just about anything not to feel. Drugs, alcohol, relationships, food, TV -- the list was endless. Without tools to deal with my feelings, I was uncomfortable and afraid of them, and they often became overwhelming...

12 Step Quotes and Sayings, III

Here are two great 12 Step sayings that help you focus on recovery and stay out of self centered fear.

Sexual Abuse: Myths Versus Reality

This article is to dispel the myths associated with sexual abuse.

Drug Abuse Resistance Education

Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or D.A.R.E., as it is more popularly known, is an international education program for drug abuse awareness and targets students from kindergarten through 12th grade. It aims at discouraging youngsters from using illegal drugs, or getting involved in gangs and other criminal activities.

A Divine Intervention

How do you tell the patriarch of the clan he has a drinking problem? What is an intervention, and how does it work? One woman's struggle with mending in a dysfunctional family.

Painkiller Addiction Treatment and Risks

An addiction is the inability of being able to stop using something. There are many different types of addictions such as alcohol, shopping, food and pain medications. The most common form of addiction is cigarette addiction, millions and millions of people smoke and they cannot stop. When the craving for something is so stronger that it wins over not taking it that is addiction. Drug addiction is the second most common form of addiction. Pain medication is the third strongest addiction.

From Codependent to Independent

All of us have made - or have struggled to make - hundreds of changes in our lives only to realize that nothing real has changed in our lives except our own rising levels of frustration over what we want changed. Yet, as strange as it seems, it is just this realization of our not having progressed anywhere that is a required leg in our journey to real self-change. Why must this disappointment come to us and seem to darken our lives? The surprising answer is that this unwanted darkness is really a messenger of Light.

Admitting You Are Wrong and Personal Transformation

How can admitting you are wrong help with personal transformation? Discover how a powerful psychological concept may be unconsciously holding you back.