Dear Dr. Toni, I have been following your column for about a year now. My closest girlfriend is a therapist and she keeps Counselor magazine in her office and I read it when I ...
March is such an interesting month in that for most of the country it is a transition month between winter and spring. As we move into spring, you might want to ask yourself what has ...
Dear Dr. Toni: I am a female psychotherapist who specializes in process addictions. Mostly I work with people who are the Adult Children of Alcoholics and Addicts who have codependency issues and love addiction challenges. ...
Recently, celebrity overdoses once again made headlines. Heroin use is again on the rise, especially among younger adults. The marijuana debate begins anew with at least two states legalizing its use and others close behind. ...
This is the first installment of a two-part series focusing on cultivating the virtue of patience and applying it to recovery from addiction. I like to define patience as the ability to maintain one’s ...
Faith in a beneficent higher power, a power greater than all of us, is a basic cornerstone of all Twelve Step recovery programs. Indeed, faith and its application is an explicit theme running throughout the ...
As a writer, I am well aware of my tendency to let clutter accumulate on my desk and throughout the rest of my office. Generally I postpone clearing off my desk until the fire department ...
This column will begin a three-part series on motivation from the client’s perspective. I chose this topic because motivation to change often fluctuates during the early phases of recovery, and how a client deals with ...
Spirit Recovery Medicine Bag is not your average self-help book. It teaches a whole new way to accept who you are, let go of the past, and begin the journey to wellness of the mind, ...
Ricochet, the SURFice Dog When golden retriever Ricochet was born, her owner Judy just knew she was going to be a service dog. In fact, she became a true “Puppy Prodigy,” excelling in ...
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