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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Pennsylvania NAADAC Survey

Dear Joseph ,

Parity, integrated care, Affordable Care Act, Recovery Coaching, and many other developments – both in practice and policy – are reshaping the addiction treatment and recovery industry. For these changes to provide meaningful improvement in outcomes for our clients, our voices need to be heard.

Negotiations on a variety of issues are proceeding around tables at every level. It is critical to the addiction counselor profession as well as to our clients that representation addressing the needs of all of Pennsylvania Addiction Treatment and Recovery Providers be at every table.

NAADAC offers us the opportunity to be united and to be heard with energetic and pertinent advocacy!

We are a small task force of members working toward a revitalization of our voices, and re-establish the Pennsylvania affiliate of NAADAC. We are seeking input and participation from current NAADAC members as well as potential members. In order for the organization to hone in on issues particular to a state or region, it is imperative that representation from that area be heard. State affiliates are the vehicle for that voice.

Your opinion and participation matters!

Please take a few moments and complete the following survey.

Join NAADAC, or renew your membership, online today. Visit http://www.naadac.org/membership/join

Thank you for your loyal membership, your help, your voice, and your participation. We will be in contact with you to advise you of the results of this survey and the action steps that will follow.

Sincerely,

Nancy M.Newman & Devin Reaves, Pennsylvania Planning Task Group
Ron Pritchardt, Mid-Atlantic Regional Vice-President, NAADAC
Cynthia Moreno Tuohy, Executive Director, NAADAC

Click HERE to take the survey!

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"All the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind." - Eckhart Tolle

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Monday, April 7, 2014

APRIL 7 v 4 v 5 TWELVE STEPPING WITH POWER IN THE PROVERB

Love wisdom like a sister;

make insight a beloved member of your family.

Let them protect you from an affair with an immoral woman,

from listening to the flattery of a promiscuous woman.

STEP 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

What should be added to the proverb with this day and age is an affair with a man or woman. If you really want to go for a ride on the Relapse Roller Coaster this is a sure fire way back to Highville. So when your attending a meeting and your putting your name and number down on the list stop trying to remember someones number .Early in recovery is not a good time for a relationship especially if you are already involved with someone or married. Sex can be just as addictive as chemical substances and if you have an issue attend meetings where the opposite sex is not a part of it . There are lot of you in recovery who work the rooms like a Great White shark just circling waiting for your next victim , Shame ! Shame ! You gotta get focused on you and how to stay sober ! Give yourself at least a year ,adding someone to your life when it is a train wreck is like jumping out of a airplane without a parachute . That is the beautiful part of step five ,when feeling tempted do not resist temptation on your own wrestling that Ape is almost a guaranteed failure instead tell someone like your sponsor .Getting someone else involved will be the best way to deal with the temptation and getting another s perspective could save your butt.

1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

By :Joseph Dickerson

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"Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you." - Osho

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Saturday, April 5, 2014

APRIL 5 v 7 TWELVE STEPPING WITH POWER IN THE PROVERB

A proverb in the mouth of a fool

is as useless as a paralyzed leg.

STEP 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our addictions—that our lives had become unmanageable.

Unfortunately that is what I was and can still be at times. It is human nature to think you have all the answers to life. Reading Gods Big book and working the steps on a daily basis will keep the foolishness to a minimum . Step one says we are powerless over addictions ,I struggle with that because it is not your DOC that has control , it is the fool inside all of us that you powerless against. You have to call him out and recognize that he has gotten control of you .The only way you defeat him is asking God for help (step one ). The fool inside has many names PRIDE ,ANGER ,SHAME ,GUILT ,FEAR ,RESENTMENT, and the list goes on . Once you call out and recognize the fool inside he will begin to lose his grip on your life . Your DOC is the byproduct of the damage being caused by that fool inside who is calling the shots in your life. As long as he is in charge you will never reach your destiny.

Psalms 14 ; 1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.

Joseph Dickerson