by Javan | Mar 22, 2015 | Addiction, Anxiety, Depression
If you have a brain, then you have the required tool to become addicted. Addicted people are not physically different from non-addicted people. Distorted thoughts cause misleading logic; two of the confounding attributes of the addicted brain. It is the contradiction... by Javan | Mar 6, 2014 | Family Counseling, Individual Therapy, Marital Therapy, Self-Help
The propensity for addiction exists in each person. If you have a brain, then you have the required tool to become addicted. Addicted people are not physically different from non-addicted people. People are prone to their own stinkin’ thinkin’ habits that... by Kathy | Mar 17, 2012 | Addiction, Affairs, Marriage
These past few weeks I’ve been in a position to witness one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen. A marriage destroyed by addiction. Oh, sure, marriages get destroyed by addiction all the time, so why is this one in particular so sad? Perhaps because,... by Christy Aloisio | Nov 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
Forgiveness is a word spoken daily in my office. It is a struggle that most endure at some point in their lives. It is the woman who cannot get over and move on from being molested by a family member when she was younger. It is a man whose father lived in the same... by Christy Aloisio | Oct 27, 2011 | Addiction, Affairs
One day there was a man driving through the desert. A snake on the side of the road flags down the man as he is driving. The man pulls over and the snake says, “Would you be so kind as to give me a ride to town?” The man, who is kind of heart, thinks for a...