Category: Psychology

• California Sober-an opinion

  I want to make this clear and get it out of the way immediately: I am 100% abstinent. I have been 100% abstinent since 1992. I, as an individual in long-term recovery, am more than convinced that I cannot, under any circumstances, consume any psychoactive substance. Doesn’t matter if it is marijuana, alcohol, psychedelics, tranquilizers, […]

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  March 24, 2021

  Counseling, Drugs, Marijuana, Narcotics Anonymous Bulletin #29, Psychology, Recovery

  12 Step, Abstinence, Cali Sober, California Sober, Demi Lovato, Ethics, Harm Rediuction, Recovery

• My Paganism

  

  When I was 14 years old, my parents had a party. I remember one of the guests coming up and telling me I should go for a walk because I have too much energy to just sit around. Her name was Buff, and that night began my informal training in the Art of the Wise, […]

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  February 21, 2018

  Counseling, Drugs, Pagan, Psychology, Recovery, Stoner/Doom, Wicca

  Pagan, Recovery, Wicca

• About that recovery…

  

  So, about this recovery thing… When I first started this blog a year ago, I was nearing the completion of my Masters in Addiction Studies.  I figured that a graduate degree, along with 24 years of long-term recovery qualified me to make some observations about recovery.  Most of my observations were pretty critical: the cult […]

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  December 6, 2017

  Counseling, Drugs, Heavy Metal, Music, Popular Culture, Psychology, Recovery, Stoner/Doom, Uncategorized

  Psychology, Recovery, Stoner/Doom