Parenting Through Recovery: Balancing Responsibility and Support
Triple Divide Lodge recently hosted a Family Program during which our Executive Director, Patrick Hawkins, discussed the critical importance of continuing care for clients and families struggling with substance abuse. Family programming helps families understand how their son’s, brother’s, or loved one’s condition has affected them, to initiate and focus on their own recovery, and how they can be of support throughout their journey to
Understanding that the 12-steps is Working Within an Attachment Framework
Attachment and attachment styles are popular topics in today’s mental health culture. At Triple Divide Lodge, we are looking at working from an attachment framework rather than simply helping clients to identify their attachment styles. Attachment For Survival People are hard-wired to need other people for their survival. Each person innately needs and yearns for acceptance, belonging, and care from others for secure attachment. These are part
Initiating the 12 Steps Program: Helping Adolescents Overcome Addiction
The 12 Steps are based on spiritual principles and are intended to aid individuals in recovery from substance use addictions, behavioral addictions, or other compulsive behaviors. The 12 steps have been in existence since 1937. A simple internet search will reveal over 100 ways the steps are utilized. Yet there are claims there is no evidence of their efficacy. Why the dispute? While it is true
