If You Want to Know Where Bottom is, Stop Digging
Rick Baumgartle CADC II
You hear it all the time in treatment programs, the rooms of support groups, like 12 step programs and from family and friends. “They just need to hit bottom.” Even from the person with addiction themselves, when they buy into the abstract idea of “bottom.”
What I've Learned in 15 Years of Recovery.
Rick Baumgartle CADC II
Today is my birthday. I won't say how old I am, as vanity is still a character defect I am working on. I will say that I have been alive a lot longer than I deserve to be, and much longer than most sane people would have bet on me...
Several years ago a good friend of mine in recovery who was in school for addictions counseling summed it up quite nicely when she said, “I just never saw myself as being the cliche, but here I am.”
I work with a few people, who after getting some time in recovery under their belts, start pondering their future and take...
If you want a Dr. who will tell you what you need to hear, and not want to hear, then go to him. He will help you, but you have to want to help yourself! I give him TEN STARS! I appreciate him and his staff more then he will ever know.