What do you do when you realize you’ve made a mistake? Do you define yourself by it? Do you beat yourself up about it? Do you spend days or weeks ruminating on it…

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Looking in from the outside people that love a heavy substance user cannot understand why they keep using in spite of the negative consequences they are experiencing and…

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After spending the first half of their lives in AA, Freedom Model developers Mark Scheeren and Michelle Dunbar experienced their fair share of AA’s “slogan therapy”.

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Watching someone struggle with an addiction can be frightening for those who are close to them. In desperation, many people resort to hiring an addiction professional to do an…

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We have talked to thousands of people over the years who have genuinely tried to make the 12 step program work for them. Each time they’ve failed reinforced the idea that they…

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The Freedom Model team takes on a tough but important topic, feeling and believing you’re broken which often turns into feelings of complete hopelessness.

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The concept of moderate substance use is heresy in the addiction treatment and recovery world. According to the addiction disease model, those struggling with addiction only…

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Many people who first learn about The Freedom Model think it’s a program with a goal of achieving moderate substance use, but that’s not exactly right. The goal of the Freedom…

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Many heavy substance users get to the point where they “want to want to stop”. This means they are still using heavily and still see value in intoxication, but the costs are…

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There are so many lies told by well-meaning addiction treatment providers and recovery advocates, but there is one that stands out as being the most damaging.

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