I find it fascinating We are living in COVID time I wonder, if this ever ends, we will be looking back and be like, whoa, COVID timeThat is when everything changed and this happened and that happened One of the things that has happened in the therapeutic field--drug and alcohol treatment, mental health treatment--is a lot of people began to work from home They began to offer what us...
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Recover Integrity: Blog
11
May 2021
There is an idea just popularized--but has been around for thirty year--that congealed into a little phrase that I hear all the time And it just sort of dawned on me--I did not use to hear that ten years ago when I was working in treatment and recovery You will hear therapists, clinicians, and facilitators at treatment programs or in transformational programs talk about “being in...
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11
May 2021
There is a German term It is called Zeitgeist It means the spirit of the time And in this time, one word that I started to hear more in the last three to five years that is pointing to an important reality is the notion of resilience and being resilient And I think the reason why that idea has become more popular as of late, at least in modern Western Society--Los Angeles in my case--...
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10
May 2021
I was speaking in a previous video about the relationship between alienation and marketing There is actually a brilliant sociologist, psychologist--a member of the hated Frankfurt group--Erich Fromm And I really suggest you read his books He was quite popular in the '60s and '70s Then postmodernism hitHe kind of died out in terms of popularity But one of the things he noticed was in t...
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03
May 2021
I often think that you can understand the trends of what's happening in the mental health and substance abuse world Meaning, what kind of drugs are people using right now We're probably a little past the middle of a terrible opioid epidemic The trends of anxiety are becoming a more common psychological phenomenon that we're talking about a lot So why is this the case now as opposed to 10 years ago...
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26
Apr 2021
I've had the privilege of living amongst a lot of different communities during my recovery Now, 17 years sober, I’ve experienced the treatment community, the Jewish community (I’m an assistant Rabbi), religious community, and a lot of spiritual communities I’ve been a part of Eastern tradition, Western tradition, and healing spiritual communities One thing that I've learned in being a p...
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