Drug dependency is a commonly misunderstood reality in today’s culture. Mention drug dependency, and most people are quick to imagine the homeless addict, thieving to support a heroin or crack habit. However, today’s reality proves that pigeonholed cliché isn’t always the case. In fact, with the advent of doctor prescribed medications and over the counter [...]
There are many misconceptions and misunderstandings about what group therapy is, whom it’s for, and how it works. Eliminating misunderstandings about group therapy can go a long way towards getting people the help that they need. Group therapy, like individual therapy, is intended to help people who want to improve their quality of life by [...]
Modernity has most of us familiar with using the terms “self-esteem”, “self-image”, and “self-confidence” on a regular basis, but how many people know, exactly, what self-esteem really is? How many people are plagued by a low self-esteem yet don’t understand why or how to improve it? How many people live, day-in and day-out, with low [...]
I struggled with addictions to drugs and alcohol from the age of fifteen. It was then a fifteen year long journey that took me from international drug smuggling and dealing to the park benches of Brixton. Ultimately, it took me to a place where death not only seemed inevitable – it was the only thing [...]