by Rob Cline | Sep 24, 2020 | Addiction, Recovery
Do you have an image of a drug addict or an alcoholic in your head? When you imagine this person, what do you see? Maybe they have lost their home and family. Maybe they can’t hold a job. Maybe you imagine them waking up and not knowing where they are or how they got... 
by Rob Cline | Sep 9, 2020 | Recovery
Yoga is an ancient practice that first got a foothold in the United States in the late 1800s. By the 1970s, yoga was firmly established in American culture—with some people swearing by it and others feeling much more dismissive (you might remember the fella from the... 
by Rob Cline | Sep 3, 2020 | Addiction
Addiction can be a tricky thing. We are used to thinking of addiction in terms of substance use disorders—that is, addictions to drugs and/or alcohol. But substance use disorders are not the only kinds of addiction. Some people who have gone through treatment for an... 
by Rob Cline | Aug 20, 2020 | Recovery
The Basics Imagine you are trying to learn a new skill. Maybe you have decided to take up the saxophone. There are lots of things to learn in order to get started, so maybe you find a teacher who can show you the basics. You learn how the horn goes together, how to... 
by Rob Cline | Aug 5, 2020 | Recovery
What do you think of when you think of a writer? Maybe you imagine Hemingway at the bull fights. Or J.K. Rowling dreaming up her boy wizard. Or Stephen King thinking of some gruesome new way to horrify us. You might imagine someone alone in a room scribbling madly or...