Defusing Dysfunctional Relationships Using the Karpman Drama Triangle Personal ResourcesBy Promises AustinSeptember 20, 2016Addiction and dysfunctional relationships provide a dizzying array of interactions that are sometimes daunting to comprehend, let alone resolve. Each person’s role in the affiliation shifts and changes depending on their habitual means of viewing the world, as well as their entrenched communication styles. Based in part on family-of-origin patterns, in addition to learned behaviors,… Details
How to Break Your Love Addiction Sex AddictionBy Promises AustinSeptember 14, 2016Being addicted to love sounds pleasant enough, but it can have seriously negative consequences. Love addiction prevents you from finding real love, establishing healthy relationships and enjoying your life to the fullest. Understanding love addiction and taking concrete steps to change the way you interact in relationships will help you move forward. You may even… Details
Hypnosis Might Help You Overcome Addiction TherapiesBy Promises AustinSeptember 14, 2016Research into hypnosis as a treatment tool for addiction has shown that this alternative practice can help some people. Results are mixed, though, and it seems that the strategy is best used as a tool within a more traditional and comprehensive approach to addiction treatment. If you’re interested in trying it, work with the professionals… Details
Finding a Different Kind of Magic in Life After Meth TestimonialsBy Promises AustinSeptember 8, 2016When she was in her teens, Shannon R. began searching for “something magical to help me be happy every day.” Marijuana, though enjoyable, wasn’t enough. Ecstasy was “tons of fun, but I never felt like, ‘Oh my God, I want to do this every day.’” And mushrooms and other psychedelics unnerved her. Then when she… Details
After Addiction Nightmare, Waking to Happiness TestimonialsBy Promises AustinSeptember 8, 2016About the fifth morning of his stay at addiction rehab, an unusual thing happened to Basim H. He awoke with a smile on his face. “A kind of happiness had returned to me,” he remembered, “and that’s when I started realizing that all the drinking and drugs I’d been using for so long — I… Details
After 30 Years of Marijuana Use, the Smoke Clears MarijuanaBy Promises AustinSeptember 8, 2016When Paul* traces the history of his troubled relationship with marijuana, he points to a moment from early childhood. “It was 1976 and we were at a lake we went to every weekend, and I remember someone was smoking pot on a different boat and the smell wafted across and I said, ‘What is that?’… Details
Imprisoned by Addiction, Freed by Recovery RecoveryBy Promises AustinSeptember 8, 2016Becky R. believes in miracles. How else can she explain the change in her life from two years ago when she heard a judge say these words after her arrest for selling ecstasy to an undercover agent: “You will spend a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of 45 in the Illinois Department of… Details
4 Conditions That Absolutely Do Not Mix With Marijuana MarijuanaBy Promises AustinSeptember 7, 2016Marijuana may be very much in the news, especially following legalization of recreational use in a handful of states, but that doesn’t mean the drug is completely safe universally — or at all, for that matter. Much more research will need to be done before the full extent of the risks and dangers of marijuana… Details
A Sobering Look at Addiction Relapse Rates Relapse PreventionBy Promises AustinSeptember 7, 2016Recovery from drug or alcohol abuse or a process addiction isn’t always a neat and tidy process. Relapse is common and many addiction professionals believe it to be a natural part of the process. Just like people with chronic conditions like hypertension, asthma and diabetes slip up in their ongoing recovery regime, so do people… Details
hopeless and helpless TestimonialsBy Promises AustinSeptember 7, 2016When I arrived here at Promises I was hopeless and helpless. I can’t believe I’m walking out a new woman. Full of life and hope that my future is a bright one. Thank you Promises-“Ya saved my life”!
