Every Wednesday night for the past year, I've called into a conference line to be part of a very special 12-step study group as applied to our addiction which is food (for those who are interested... Read more >>

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." ~ Wayne Dyer Rick Warren said it best in his bestselling book, The Purpose Driven Life,... Read more >>

"Have you had any serious health conditions?" asked my son's psychiatrist Dr. C. I had just brought Alex to UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute to find out why, over the course of... Read more >>

“I’m an insomniac lately. It’s one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling marriage.” —Meredith from A Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah When I... Read more >>

When I suggest to addiction-trained and mental-health professionals that there may be more for a sober client to attain in life than sobriety through the successful completion of the twelve-step... Read more >>

(Continued from “Why I Don’t Play Farmville, Part 1”) “Indoors or outside?” The man wouldn’t take no for an answer. “What?” “Walking today;... Read more >>

a total stranger one black day knocked living the hell out of me— who found forgiveness hard because my (as it happened) self he was —but now that fiend and I are such immortal... Read more >>

When I began working in the field of addiction thirty years ago, most clients were automatically labeled addicts (yes, shocking but true), just as most clinicians were either... Read more >>

In the recent headlines of bad behavior whether it be another tale of a celebrity spouse cheating, politicians shouting out ill intent remarks or the latest admission of drug and alcohol abuse, we... Read more >>

The other day I had an epiphany and marshmallows were to blame. I was filling out a survey of get to know you questions on a blog network I was joining where the revelatory question was “One... Read more >>