by Reggie | Jan 22, 2023 | Two Pillars, Uncategorized
Ever wonder why so many of us lose our voices at the precise moment we need to ask for help? Credit shame, the pivotal emotion that drives self-defeating behavior, together with all-or-nothing thinking, our most common cognitive distortion. “Shame,” much like...
by Reggie | Jan 22, 2023 | Two Pillars
Ask people engaged in addiction treatment for a single word to describe where they just came from—a word that sums up the experience of active addiction—and they quickly agree on “hell.” Many years ago, someone asked the then famous and now controversial evangelist...
by Reggie | Jan 22, 2023 | Two Pillars
Not long after becoming medical director of an inpatient addiction unit at a hospital in New Hampshire in 1988, I realized that most of my patients—two-thirds or more—had been in treatment before. Their stories of relapse were unique, but also remarkably similar. All...
