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Slogans for a New Year

January 1, 2010

Image by mckaysavage via Flickr To kick off the new year we thought it would be fun to break out some of our favorite recovery slogans.  Wishing you a healthy-minded new year. “If I could drink like a normal drinker, I’d drink all the time!” “Anger is but a mask for fear.” “If nothing changes, [...]

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Turning Points

December 28, 2009

By Richard Reeve “To recognize the real spiritual identity of other people in everyday contact… to allow them to be themselves, must be linked up with ones capacity to allow oneself to be oneself.” Milner, quoted in Ulanov, Spiritual Aspects of Clinical Work, pg. 52 The “work” must find the other exactly where they are, [...]

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…Serenity

December 25, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Wishing our entire community the serenity that is the fruit of surrender and the healthy-mindedness that can prosper amidst adversity. A very Merry Christmas.

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A Chance for Real Change

December 23, 2009

Image via Wikipedia By Rita Argiros, Ph.D. I have been thinking about struggle, that is the struggle against ourselves whenever we try to make a change. You want to lose weight. You try not to eat. At first you have the problem poorly defined. You think that the problem is your weight and the solution [...]

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What Symbol Lies Within Our Behavior?

December 22, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife By Richard Reeve Many of our convictions are not as rational as we might think.  In fact, experience seems to show time and time again that as our absolute certainty increases, then our own blind spots likewise increase.  An interesting question to ask relating to all of this is [...]

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The Power of Resentment

December 20, 2009

Image via Wikipedia By Richard Reeve In his classic text on resentment, Max Scheler brings some interesting words into relationship with what has in recovery circles been defined as “the number one offender.”  Do the words impotence, delusion, blindness, inferiority, and falsification find an association in your definition of resentment? “The case is different when [...]

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A Season of Gratitude and Joy

December 12, 2009

Image via Wikipedia These weeks are full of anticipation and excitement, gratitude and joy.  Another group of graduates is leaving the Family Foundation School today having completed their schooling and grown in the principles of recovery, or to use the phrase from William James, “healthy mindedness.” Seeing families cross this threshold together is incredibly rewarding.  [...]

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Giving Thanks for the Change of Heart

November 26, 2009

Image via Wikipedia By Richard Reeve The opportunity to work with the at-risk teens and the families we serve at the Family Foundation School is a privilege none of us takes for granted.  The challenges we encounter on a daily basis provide everyone involved, students, parents and staff, an opportunity for growth and development. Likewise [...]

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An Open Letter About Sex at the Family Foundation School

November 12, 2009

By Dr. Rita Argiros “It is not necessary to intervene in normal, healthy, safe behavior.  It is necessary, however, to intervene in any behaviors that are so excessive or compulsive that the behavior places the adolescent at risk for harm, or interferes with their healthy and normal functioning and development.“ Jeff Brain, MA, CTS, CEP [...]

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The Extra-curricular Challenge

October 16, 2009

The Family Foundation School recently celebrated the accomplishments of its Forensics Team (debate) which was recognized by the National Forensics Association (NFL).  (The analogy of debate to an NFL football game would not be lost on some of the participants). This brings to the fore the importance of extra-curricular activities that meet a wide variety [...]

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