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15 Dec 2019
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The Reality of Treatment Success Rates

Yeshaia Blakeney
Addiction, Recovery Blog, Rehabilitation Process, The Field of Treatment, Therapy, Video, Yeshaia Blakeney

Coming to treatment has always been a hard threshold to cross - but more so now… Working in treatment for a long time, I’ve experienced greater consumer wariness.   People are more hesitant to send their loved ones to treatment and people who are looking for treatment are more hesitant to come. I think one of the reasons is the discourse about addiction, treatment and recovery has hit the mainstream, and one of the things that has...

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26 Nov 2019
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Dogma in AA: Trusting in the Spirit of Reality

Yeshaia Blakeney
Addiction, Recovery Blog, Rehabilitation Process, The Field of Treatment, Therapy, Video, Yeshaia Blakeney

Dogma is not actually something I would want to get rid of within Alcoholics Anonymous.   I would also say dogma is not something that I want to get rid of in alcoholics anonymous. On some level, what it means to be a person in recovery, who's engaged in traditional 12 steps is to have some sense of acceptance, that you are not in charge of the world.   And it's sort of like trusting the spirit of...

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10 Nov 2019
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AA tries NOT to be dogmatic

Yeshaia Blakeney
Addiction, Recovery Blog, Rehabilitation Process, The Field of Treatment, Therapy, Video, Yeshaia Blakeney

Alcoholics Anonymous Although somewhat known for dogma - actually has gone out of the way to NOT be dogmatic.   Everything is languaged from a place of suggestion as opposed to declarative statements for how you are supposed to be.   When you see it in the literature of Alcoholics Anonymous, you notice that these were people who were not only NOT particularly dogmatic, but they were also sensitive to the fact that people would be sensitive to dogma.   I am...

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21 Oct 2019
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How to Deal with Dogma in Traditional 12-Step Recovery

Yeshaia Blakeney
Addiction, Recovery Blog, Rehabilitation Process, The Field of Treatment, Video, Yeshaia Blakeney

The One major, legitimate critique of traditional 12-step recovery that I hear a lot (and agree with) Dogma.   Which is basically some authority prescribing rules or structure, usually rigid or fixed rules, to a system.   You find that in AA, and for some people that’s a big turn off I don't like that, I’m a questioner, a doubter, I'm curious… and it doesn’t work well with me or a lot of people.   So how do you deal with this?...

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06 Oct 2019
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Dual Diagnosis vs Multidimensionality

Juan Perez
Addiction, Recovery Blog, Rehabilitation Process, The Field of Treatment, Therapy

Some time ago, I had the opportunity to work in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles. In those days (the early ’90s) the residents of the area were divided between need “mental health services” or those needing “addiction services.”  This distinction was usually the result of some odd government funding rules or just the general ignorance of the time. It must have been extremely frustrating for clients to walk back and forth between...

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16 Aug 2019
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The Rebel Side of Alcoholics Anonymous

Yeshaia Blakeney
Addiction, Recovery Blog, Rehabilitation Process, The Field of Treatment, Therapy, Video, Yeshaia Blakeney

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text] What to expect in this episode:   People suffering from addiction often feel very rebellious inside The most radical thing about AA is that it's completely detached from the market Alcoholics Anonymous is rebellious, it rejects traditional hierarchy & is free [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="50px" image_repeat="no-repeat"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" box_shadow_on_row="no" el_id="feel-rebellious-inside"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Alcoholics Anonymous is for Rebels    The other thing about Alcoholics Anonymous; addicts and alcoholics often feel rebellious inside.   There’s a rebel piece that grows inside...

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