What Is Intervention? A successful intervention gets help for everyone who needs it! The Mayo Clinic staff [1], using a widely accepted definition, describes addiction intervention to be a carefully planned process that may be done by family and friends, who gather together to confront a loved one about the consequences of addiction and ask […]

LCCS is proud to offer a men only psycho-education group focused on relapse prevention. The group meets each Friday from 10:00am – 11:30am. It is co-facilitated by Shawn Leadem, LCSW and Shim Frankel, LCSW. The cost for this group is $90.00 per session which includes between-session reviews of group member’s written assignments. This is an open treatment […]

A relapse into active alcoholism or sex addiction, or any other addictive disorder, is a preventable syndrome and not a predictable aspect of recovery.  A particular path that one follows to relapse may have highly individualized trigger points and each person’s life can introduce seemingly unique challenges.  However, the path to sober living is clearly […]

The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous figuratively describes the importance of conducting a moral inventory when it compares the 4th Step process to a business owner taking inventory of the value of salable merchandise when referring to, “A business which takes no regular inventory usually goes broke.  Taking a commercial inventory is a fact-finding and fact-facing […]

The way people express their sexuality seems to be as varied and diverse as the cultures that exist throughout the world.  What may be sexually arousing to one may not be arousing to another.  Each of us has an arousal template that dictates what we will find arousing to us.  Moreover, it appears that for […]

One in the Spirit: A Week’s Summary #3 Let the Slogans Guide You Empathy can be challenging. If we are not mindful that it is by God’s grace that we are in successful recovery, it is easy to be judgmental of others who continue to struggle with their own challenges. Why are they so stuck? […]

We believe that a relapse into active addiction is a preventable syndrome and not a predictable aspect of recovery.  Proponents of the position that relapse is a common phenomenon in the recovery process from addiction would have you believe that relapses are expected and that most people recovering from an addictive illness will “fall short” […]

Assisting a client, who is repeatedly relapsing can pose a good many professional challenges. Traditional recovery wisdom suggests that the “all addicts relapse for exactly the same reason – to change the way that they feel.” When we are helping clients to build strategies for interrupting a relapse process they find it helpful to understand […]

If you or a loved one is concerned about your consumption of alcohol and/or drugs but are unsure whether or not you you want to seek outside help then perhaps one or both of these tools can help you in the decision process.  The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST) is a 22-question self-test to help […]

The Sexual Addiction Screening Test (SAST-2) developed by Dr. Patrick Carnes, author of Out of the Shadows and Facing the Shadows, is a self assessment tool that can help evaluate the likelihood that a person is suffering with a sexual addiction.  This tool was made available to this site from Dr. Patrick Carnes and can […]