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Getting sober and navigating the world as a person in recovery is challenging at any age. Add an additional layer of difficulty by being an emerging adult—when one in six of your peers meet the criteria for a substance use disorder—and you’ve got a hea…
In this don’t have the time to listen world, Dr. Mark Goulston has discovered that it’s less important what you tell other people than what you enable them to tell you that really upsets, scares, angers, frustrates and matters to them. He will teach y…
Our guest today brings many years of experience working with women in recovery to address the key issues mothers face at all stages on their recovery path. She will share advice along with inspiring stories of recovering moms, including her own, to off…
An article in the Journal of American Medicine says that about 12 percent of those people sixty-five and older take ten or more medications per week, some over the counter, some prescribed. The medical community defines this situation as Polypharmacy …
What does it mean to be authentic? How does one achieve their right of dignity? How does one carry oneself with integrity? What does being sober have to do with authenticity?
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Embrace Recovery – Embrace the Authentic Life
Anxiety and Depression are two of the most common complaints in therapy, and it is not unusual for clients to suffer from both simultaneously. Our guest today unravels the complexity of this common comorbidity and highlights some of the common types of…
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method by which clinicians are able to interrupt and modify certain types of emotional reactions and thoughts that repeat with the same characteristics and qualities of the original reactions an…
Painkiller addiction is a serious public health concern and nationwide epidemic which often requires specialized addiction treatment. Our guest today, Dr. Alkesh Patel, is a highly experienced addiction psychiatrist specializing in pain management. H…
Ruchama Clapman founded MASK 19 years ago in response to the problems of substance abuse and mental health as she and others experienced them in the Brooklyn, NY Jewish community. She and her staff work tirelessly to make sure families in crises are di…
While the number of outpatient treatment programs for substance use disorders appear to be growing nationally, the quality of these programs are uneven and unknown to most consumers. Many states and managed care companies do not properly monitor the qu…
WestBridge Meet & Greet
At WestBridge, we work with adult men and families from around the country and, in some cases, the world. One of the unique features of our model is our virtual Meet & Greet service which allows us to deepen our assessment and begin building trust and engaging participants in the pre-admission process.