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Addiction Counseling

Disease Concept – Avoiding Responsibility?

Doesn’t the promotion of the “disease concept” help addicts to avoid taking responsibility for their behavior? The only people I’ve ever heard using the “disease concept” as an excuse are practicing alcoholics who have no real intention of changing.     I hear something totally different from addiction counselors and other professionals who subscribe to what has […]

John Wesley’s Small Group Rules

Christian support groups are not a new idea! I learned that when I first discovered John Wesley’s “Rules for Small Groups” written in 1816. This is an outline of “the Method” from which the name “Methodist” was derived.   It resulted in one of the greatest revivals the world has ever known. What if following these […]

John Bradshaw’s Healing the Shame that Binds You

PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR PART FIVE PART SIX