November 18, 2017 Announcing the Bookstore Holiday Sale! To thank you for being a subscriber, NAADAC is offering you 10% off any item at the NAADAC Bookstore this holiday season. Enter "HO10" at checkout to take advantage of this holiday discount. Sale ends December 31st. Visit the NAADAC Bookstore and find the perfect gift for the addiction professionals in your life, like: Basics of Addiction Counseling Module II. Newly updated in 2017, Module II: Addiction Counseling Theories, Practices and Skills is designed to provide addiction counselors and other helping professionals with a thorough overview of the major theories and techniques used for addiction counseling; Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment materials & independent study courses. The 175-page skill-based training program brings together the tools that addiction professionals need to screen clients for unhealthy drinking, deliver effective brief counseling, refer to other specialists and provide successful case management & follow-up; The History of Addiction Counseling in the United States: Promoting Personal, Family, and Community Recovery by William L. White. Since its inception, addiction counseling has operated without a definitive history of its birth and evolution. Recognizing the need for such a history, NAADAC recruited William (“Bill”) White, the addiction field’s premier historian, to use the NAADAC archives and voices from the field to construct the history of addiction counseling and NAADAC's role in that history; ... and many more, with many worth NAADAC CEs! Members: The holiday discount is in addition to your member discount! Not a NAADAC member? Join today. NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals 44 Canal Center Plaza, Suite 301, Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone: 703.741.7686 / 800.548.0497 Send to Friend |  | Subscribe |

Countdown Begins! On Tuesday, November 28, 2017, charities, families, businesses, community centers and students around the world will come together for one common purpose: to celebrate and encourage giving. YOU are the most important part in making it a special day by choosing to #GiveHope to women around the world who are struggling with alcohol and drug addictions. You have the power to #GiveTheGiftofSobriety with your financial contribution by supporting the self-help recovery program services provided by Women for Sobriety, Inc.; a nonprofit charitable organization. In the following days leading up to #GivingTuesday, WFS will be sharing with you Stories of Hope from women who have found their hope for recovery renewed in the WFS New Life Program. Visit our Website Empowering Ideas In the past, I believed that I was not worthy and not important. I allowed people to treat me as such. The more I abused myself with alcohol, the more abuse I tolerated from other people. I gave away any remaining self-value with my drinking and opened the door to physical and emotional damage. WFS Statement #12 breathes life into me with empowering ideas. It states that “I am a competent woman.” I needed this healthy encouragement daily as I was beginning my New Life, sometimes I needed to say it a hundred times a day. I began to feel my self-worth returning, as well as feelings of value. It is comforting to walk away from abuse as well as a loving action towards myself. I am one rocking competent woman who knows that she has so much to give life! I am worthy of respect, dignity and love. Hugzzz, Karen Hamm, President Women for Sobriety, Inc. Article: Read Karen’s Thanksgiving Message on WFS’s Blog site by clicking HERE. Online Support: Join our WFS Online Community! Details HERE. Thank you for your gift of hope! Women for Sobriety, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your Donations Help Support WFS's Ongoing Services. If you received this from a friend, we welcome you to JOIN our email list. Copyright © Women for Sobriety, Inc. | All rights reserved | Federal ID # 23-1972763 Email: contact@womenforsobriety.org | Ph: 215.536-8026 | Fax: 215.538-9026 http://www.womenforsobriety.org | http://www.wfscatalog.org STAY CONNECTED

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11-21-17 TWELVE STEPPING WITH SUPPORT FROM SCRIPTURE

Proverb 19 v 3 -People ruin their lives by their own foolishness and then are angry at the Lord. NIV

Step 3. We made a decision to turn our lives and our wills over to the care of God.

My life is a wreck and its all Gods fault is like saying a spoon made Rosie Odonnel fat. Let me elaborate! God is and never was your enemy .Without Him you would be nothing! A big problem in my Life was blaming others including God for all that was wrong in my life. God, why did you do this too me?God why did this happen, you don't love me. I am no good and this is Gods punishment for me. Sound familiar, it should, there are so many in the world with these attitudes and they wonder why life is so messed up and never seems to get better.Look at the verse! Recognize and admit that you are to blame for the mess of your life! In order to fix a problem, we have to recognize and acknowledge what the real cause is.God is not the problem you are, and you need to stop the blame game and own up to the mess you made! Tell God your sorry and then ask Him to take control of your life because you cant keep living this way.God created you because you are His Children and He loves you more than you could ever comprehend. He has good and prosperity planned for your life and it is obvious your plan failed. Let go Let God, Forgive and Forget, Live Laugh and Love that is His plan! 

By Joseph Dickerson/Recovery Connections 

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Psalm 103v3 He forgives all my sins and Heals all my diseases

November 2017

Hey Friends – You’ve probably heard about the new digital Abilify pills, with embedded sensors that send signals about whether we are using the medication as prescribed. I predict this technology will become widespread, and I worry about its use in court ordered treatment and other involuntary interventions. Here at PDA, we are dedicated to promoting shared decision making, so that we always have a voice and choice in finding the treatment that is right for us. We commit ourselves to gathering a community of experts to develop a decision aid which will support shared decision making about digital pills. We invite you to join our Conspiracy of Voice and Choice. PDA's RecoveryLibrary homepage - November '17: Watch Pat's video from the homepage What's PDA up to this month?   Allison is helping a second NHS program in Pennsylvania prepare to use the CommonGround Software.  By the end of the month, she will have conducted 3 training sessions for their staff on Personal Medicine, Power Statements, and Decision Support. Missy and Pat  presented a CommonGround Academy class, "Moving Beyond Compliance to Alliance", once for Community Care Behavioral Health practitioners and again for their peer staff. Pat spoke at New York's Center for Practice Innovations 10th Anniversary Event. Her presentation was titled "Remaining Human Hearted While Working in the Human Services". Missy and Allison led a training for Ancora Psychiatric Hospital in NJ: Practicing the CommonGround Approach Pat spoke at Harvard University's Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health.  Check out our free downloads Pat's Blog: an "Oldie but Goodie" Peer Specialists: sign up for online continuing education courses Check out our other CommonGround Programs:

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