The 12 Step Consultant Certification came about in 2007 as many treatment facilities were hiring staff with no 12 Step recovery experience and they were asked to work with clients involved in 12 Step recovery work. These staff members began calling me to educate them on the 12 Steps. In order to fulfill their need, […]

Codependency is simply the loss of one’s sense of self. It is when you do not have the conscious ability to separate yourself emotionally from another. A typical going to dinner conversation between co-dependents is “Where would you like to go to dinner tonight? Oh, I don’t know where do you want to go? Both

Yes, an old life ends because the truth is told, and yes a new life begins because truth is told at the first step. It is in the other 11 steps that we learn to heal, let go of more and more old ideas, adopt new ones, become vulnerable, and develop a reliance vs defiance