When we were in AA, there was a lot of negative talk about how stressful the holidays are. From strained familial relationships, to fear of accidentally ingesting booze in…

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We hear every day from people who have been in and out of treatment programs and 12 step groups, who feel like complete failures. Each time they go back they think…

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It’s all too common to hear people say that those who struggle with addiction are weak-willed and that the allure of drugs and alcohol is just too powerful.

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Is there happiness after stopping your addiction? While treatment and 12 step groups would have you believe that staying abstinent is a struggle, one difficult day at a time…

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Addiction treatment uses fear of substances, fear of relapse, and fear of consequences of heavy use to motivate people to stay sober and drug free. The problem is…

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Is it more compassionate to call addiction a disease as disease proponents claim? Does it actually help the person struggling to solve their problems and move on with their…

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What does it mean to move past an addiction? How does it feel and how will you know when you’ve done it? The Freedom Team breaks it down for you in this episode of The…

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If you love someone who is struggling with an addiction, you may be feeling frustrated, fearful, helpless, and hopeless. In this episode, The Freedom Model team discusses the…

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With so much talk about heavy substance use increasing as a result of the pandemic lockdowns, there are many people wondering if they may have crossed that imaginary line from…

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Changing your substance use habit, whether that is reducing it to non-problematic levels or abstaining completely, doesn’t require superpowers. And those who change their…

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