There is a book called "Unconditional Parenting", where it talks about 13 guiding principles for unconditional parenting that seem to offer some helpful ways to frame unconditional recovery support. It’s important to keep in mind that it doesn’t really matter if we believe our support is unconditional. What matters is that they believe our support is unconditional. This doesn’t mean there are no conditions to participating in a particular service, rather that we will never gi

This is a message every responsible treatment program needs to hear. Families are desperate to save their loved one and they are looking to purchase something we can’t promise. It drives home the importance of providing good care and communicating the limitations of treatment. I’ve been using an obesity analogy more and more. That going to residential treatment is a lot like going to a residential weight loss program. The patient is going to get lots of structure, support, in

The field of addiction treatment was flawed in 1973, but not nearly as flawed as some would have you believe. The following is from Marty Mann in 1973 and I could not do a better job of summarizing Dawn Farm’s approach. Para-professionals working in the field of alcoholism are overwhelmingly recovered alcoholics. Most of them credit their recovery to AA, some to the facility where they are currently working, an increasing number to a combination of both, and a few to still ot