January 2012
22 posts
New Signs in the Store!
First question we get from patients.
The good news?? You don’t have to do it alone!
And my personal favorite…..
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Cup of Joe
Good morning alumni,
Man, it’s been too long! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and a safe and happy New Year. It sure was cool seeing you at all the alumni Christmas parties. I get asked quite often,” Joe, how do you do it?” Well it’s pretty simple; it’s because of the power of God and the charge I get by seeing all of you alumni out there doing this deal. It is a true gift to be...
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Prescription Drug Addiction in America
This post was provided by Hickory Wind Ranch, a sober living environment in Austin, TX that specializes in those in recovery from alcohol, drug and prescription pill addiction.
People in the U.S. are taking more prescription medications than ever before. With remedies for ailments like restless leg syndrome popping up, it’s no wonder American’s are more medicated, with drug companies spending...
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Chronic Bad Mood Workshop
Is a chronic bad mood having an ill effect on your relationships and quality of sobriety?
Are you having personal trouble with anger?
Are you unable to find a way to address it successfully?
Michael Cox, LCDC, ICADC, the La Hacienda Family Program Director, will be in Houston Saturday, February 18th to present the “Chronic Bad Mood Workshop”.
This event is for individuals that are 1 to 2 years in...
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How do I get the La Ha Newsletter?
Recently, an Alumni asked on Facebook why he doesn’t get the alumni newsletter anymore. Great question, I went straight to Joe for the official answer.
In our last mailout (Christmas invitations), we explained that we would no longer be doing mailouts. Everyone else needs to register their emailaddress at the bottom of our website. If an alumni does not have access to a computer, we can...
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Like Mother Like Daughter
Here is another great article on The Fix by Rachael Brownell, author of “Mommy Doesn’t Drink Here Anymore.” I have been sober a little over 9 years and I don’t have any children, however, my husband and I get asked all the time, “How will you keep your children from becoming alcoholic and addict?” The answer is I can’t. I love in the article where Rachel quotes her sponsor, “You are not...
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It’s time for me to realize that my attitude - toward the life I’m living and the people in it - can have a tangible, measurable and profound effect on what happens to me day by day. If I expect good, then good will surely come to me. And if I try each day to base my attitude and point of view on a sound spiritual foundation, I know it will change all the circumstances of my life for...
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Children
The alcoholic may find it hard to re-establish friendly relations with his children. Their young minds were impressionable while he was drinking. Without saying so, they may cordially hate him for what he has done to them and their mother… They cannot seem to forgive and forget… In time they will see that he is a new man and in their own way they will let him know it.
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Come Back
Part of my experience in being sober has been watching people make it back in to the rooms of Recovery. Often what I hear them say are things like this:
I am sorry I disappointed you all
I was scared to come back
I thought everyone would be mad at me
I was just too afraid to come back after so many times
I was afraid of what others would say/think about me
And on and on…
This and all the other...
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Common Questions for the Docs
What about my present medications?
You are allowed to bring up routine scheduled medications that are prescribed by your doctor. However, if the medical staff feels that they are harmful to your recovery they will recommend that they be stopped or tapered off. We do encourage you to bring up at least a month’s supply of medications that you need long term, such as blood pressure...
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The Great Reality
Deep down in every man, woman, and child is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself… We found the Great Reality deep down with us.
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