Why would we not.  What a great holiday gift for everyone, especially oneself.  The forgiveness is for ourselves.

Love and Peace,

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'Get it out' in generalities at meetings, personally with your sponsor, in group therapy, with a friend or a therapist.  Get out the angst but learn the tools to get closure on issues and grow.

Love and Peace,

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'Get it out' in generalities at meetings, personally with your sponsor, in group therapy, with a friend or a therapist.  Get out the angst but learn the tools to get closure on issues and grow.

Love and Peace,

Doc Pete

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Recovery giver us a chance for peace and felloewship.  Non-recovery leads us to stress and anxiety and usually back to the addiction.

Love and Peace,

Doc Pete

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We have an epidemic in Florida still.  Seven children are overdosing, mostly on oxycontin every day.  Let's wake up and educate ourselves and our parents on this problems.  Families can stop this.  Family unity is probably the only entity that can.

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Doc Pete

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The basic tenet of addiction is that it is characterized by loss of control.  Although this is difficult to admit, it is also relieving because now we can stop beating our heads against the wall and find help.  Now we can focus on the solution.

Love and Peace,

Doc Pete, the imperfect therapist

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The sound of enabling has come to sports over the past twenty years or so.  Pot, steroids, alcohol, cocaine - they're all prevalent in most sports.  Just read the newspapers, magazines, internet and listen to the news.  It's a daily occurence for a sports figure to be arrested for a problem related to drug and/or alcohol abuse.  And these are the ones who make it in spite of continued use.  The ones who don't make it due to drug and/or alcohol use are seldom mentioned because they are not 'today's news'.  However, their lives are ruined because their coaches, atheletic directors did not say anything, usually for personal reasons.  Injuries occur more often, coaches and managers, fans, society... cover it up for one reason or another. 

Let's bring back the humbler, more fan-oriented event instead of the arrogant, more self-absorbed game that is based on individual vanity and proccupation with self.  Let's reinforce and support the team player who still exists today.  Let's get behind the athelete and their coaches who still care about others and 'higher levels' of sports and life.

The addict is sick not bad whether he is on skid row or front row.  We need to help the person, not by turning the other way and ignoring the signs and symptoms but by caring enough to hold the person accountable.  Just like we need to hold our children as responsible for their actions, we need to stop harming our boys by helping them believe that they are better than others.

Whoever one protects, one weakens.

Love and Peace,

Doc Pete

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My favorite is waking up one morning on the couch in a strange apartment with two girls who were shooting up heroin on the floor.  There were beer can all around me and they proceeded to do an intervention on me for alcoholism.  It was so surreal; "Peter, We're very concerned about your drinking..."

I couldn't speak.  I just got up and left in semi-shock to try another day.

Love and Peace,

Doc Pete, the imperfect therapist

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Without meetings and steps and sponsoring, I would not be able to stay honest. Under great perceived or real stress, my ability to be honest is poor.  When I pray or sit in a meeting for five minutes, I get honest through a Higher Power and can see my part in the problem.

Love and Peace,

Doc Pete, the imperfect therapist

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Pot smokers have an agreement to continue their use/abuse by rationalizing their continued abuse based on so-called spiritual principles?!  This use of "spiritual thinking" justifies lung damage, neglected childre, lying, character damage and many other problems associated with drug use/abuse.  This thinking keeps the truth hidden and prevents the user/abuser from connecting the problems of abuse with the abuse.

The pot addict will rationalize that God put hemp on the earth, it grows freely as do God's other plants; many ancient cultures used it in their ceremonies; it is natural - grown in nature...  These loosley though out excuses for continuing damage to self and others pale in light of the true harm done to one's lungs, gastrointestinal system, immune system and family.  Think about it!  Someone has to.

Love and Peace,

Doc Pete, the imperfect therapist

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