Clay Hightower, LMSW The Holidays and Boundaries Part II: Little or No Contact By Clay Hightower, LMSW Halloween may be behind us now, but some of us are still thinking about ghosting this holiday season. “Ghosting” is slang for cutting somebody out of your life without any sort of contact or [...]
Clay Hightower, LMSW 2020 has been timeless. No, I don’t mean timeless like Mariah Carey’s timeless classic “All I Want for Christmas is You.” I mean timeless as in largely void of any normal social or cultural events that signal a changing of the seasons or help orient me to time. Even the [...]
The 4th Horseman of Relapse – StonewallingBy Clay Hightower, LMSW“If I do not think about it, maybe it will get better.”If you have had a thought like this about a problem before, no matter how big or small, you have engaged in a form of stonewalling. That does not mean that you committed a grave [...]
This is my third installment in the Four Horsemen and Relapse series! If you have missed them, go check out my introduction to the series and the first two pieces already posted on the page! How many times have you used the phrase “I would never do that to you” in an argument with your [...]
ou missed my previous posts on the Four Horsemen and Relapse, check out my two previous posts on Addiction Recovery Intensive and Moore Institute Facebook page. During conflicts, I will often ask my couples counseling clients the question “Would you like to feel correct, or would you like to feel happy?” They frequently respond with [...]
Survey of Men and Women with Substance Use Disorder in Halfway Housing Brandi McNeely Addiction Research Foundation Men and women in sober living in order to recover from substance abuse face numerous challenges that involve integrating oneself back into sober society after months or years of substance abuse. Along with this re-integration, is the fact [...]
Syringe Services Programs (SSPs) for Alabama Brandi McNeely Addiction Research Foundation Syringe services programs (SSPs) have in recent years been expanding throughout the United States as a response to the opioid epidemic and response to injection drug use related diseases, which are continuing to spread across the US at higher rates. SSPs are qualified as [...]
It’s easy to understand why it happened. For the first time, there seemed to be a solution for a seemingly hopeless condition (alcoholism). There were many of us whose lives were saved and there just wasn’t another plan that offered any real hope. Punishment and incarceration had not worked. At least with the 12-step [...]
% (percentage) Family 53.1 Spirituality 49.4 Friends 43.3 Exercise 30.6 Meditation 23.3 Nutrition 20.4 Leisure 20 Journaling 11.8 Religion 11.8 This Table illustrates the most commonly reported types of activity in order of frequency, with the top three being family, spirituality, and friends that people use to support their recovery outside of self help [...]
Recent Research Supports the Multi Modal Recovery Process (MMRP) The best recent news is that a much higher percentage of people with a substance use disorder get better than had been previously thought. People get better. It just doesn’t happen the way we thought. This interesting graph from research performed by the Addiction Research [...]
