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Follow Your Bliss is the blog of Ashley Webb Dane, a mother of two teenagers who has been in recovery for five years. She is committed to carrying the message of the spiritual aspect of recovery and the empowerment of women in recovery. She is a certified hypnotherapist, and is currently Director of Communications at ONE80CENTER, a drug and alcohol treatment facility in Beverly Hills.

 

Mimi Wynn has lived the rock ‘n’ roll life and realized many of her dreams. Wynn spent 23 years offering her creative contribution to the music scene as an agent, publisher and manager. Only second to recovery, Wynn witnessed amazing dreams come true and participated in the careers of the most talented musical artists and songwriters in the world. With her experience as a dream maker, she carries the message to anyone who desires to really live in recovery.

 

 

Diane Cameron is an award-winning journalist and speaker on recovery and personal growth. She is the author of two personal blogs: “Out of the Woods”—for women in long-term recovery, and “Love in the Time of Cancer”—for couples and caregivers. Diane teaches on topics related to the history and politics of mental health and recovery. Her newspaper column on popular culture appears in the Albany Times Union and in newspapers across the country. “What Comes Next” offers ideas, suggestions and provocative perspectives for men and women who have 10-plus years of recovery and reveals the continued emotional and spiritual growth that occurs with long recovery.

Last Post: Learning from Boundaries - 5/16/2012
 

Opinions, observations and ideas by occasional contributors to RenewEveryDay.com.

Last Post: The two sides of life and death - 4/25/2012
 

Kristen Black is the Interactive Media Coordinator for La Hacienda Treatment Center; she manages the company blog and social media initiatives. She has spoken at two national conferences – CCSAD and NAATP – about how treatment centers can utilize social media. Remarkably, Kristen graduated from TCU in 2000 with a bachelors of arts degree in marketing, all BEFORE she got sober. In August 2002, Kristen admitted to La Hacienda, began her recovery journey and hasn’t looked back. Four years later she came full circle and was hired as an employee. After hours, she is a yogini who recently completed her 200 hour RYT certification. Kristen lives in the Texas Hill Country with her husband, Kirby, and their three dogs.
 

At 52 years old and 13 years sober, Greg Kayko is the single father of two young children, the sponsor of half a dozen (or so) men in the Midwest and an avid but painfully average golfer. A self-described sobriety junkie, Kayko is also editorial director for a large national media company and author of Realtime Recovery: Where Sober is the New Black, a personal blog that celebrates the many ways we “trudge the Road of Happy Destiny” — even as the path narrows and the climb steepens in long-term sobriety.

 

Last Post: Who Saves Us? We Do. - 5/11/2012
 

A compilation of Thom Forbes' "Recovering Your Body" previous columns from Renew Magazine.

Last Post: Get Moving With Reverse Psychology - 9/27/2011
 

The blog At Play will help you get moving and get in shape. Learn how to move your body with more power, strength and grace.

Last Post: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes… - 11/30/2011
 

L. is a 50-something single mom making her way in the New York metropolitan area.

Last Post: Thanksgiving - 11/25/2011
 

Liz Scott is a wellness consultant, recovery advocate as well as a chef and cookbook author.

Last Post: Going Bananas Over Pudding - 11/12/2011
 

Follow the musings of REEL Recovery Film Festival Producer and Writers in Treatment Founder Leonard Buschel.

Last Post: Free Film Fest for Fiends - 10/27/2011
 

Richard Keelor shares his 50 years of experience as an athletic coach, personal trainer and health and fitness professional. 

Last Post: The Power of Choice - 9/8/2011
 

Entrepreneurship is the blog of Alex Shohet, who is the CEO and co-founder of the ONE80CENTER in Beverly Hills. Shohet studied system science engineering at UCLA but left college in 1984 because of his addiction to heroin and cocaine. In 1988, he entered a long-term treatment center in Pasadena where he found the path of recovery.

Last Post: Building a Social Enterprise - 3/16/2012
 

This will be a weekly stroll about all those things that give us pain – the pain we hate, the pain we love, the senseless crap that makes us feel, and hate, and cry and even, ironically, laugh. Angst is about living.

Last Post: You Can't Treat an Empty Chair - 11/29/2011
 

In the Streets puts the spotlight on recovery housing, issues surrounding it and its crucial transitory step in the continuum of recovery.

Last Post: Of Endings, Grief and New Beginnings - 11/28/2011
 

There are many paths to recovery, and for some that path includes informing and being informed about the larger, global and political issues surrounding recovery.

 

Rockin' Recovery is the blog of Super Star, who chose to stay sober one day at a time after surviving an almost 15-year battle with addiction. He left the crack houses to mingle with Hollywood’s elite, which culminated in the creation of an all-star CD featuring his childhood musical heroes. Artists on the CD include current and former members of Kiss, Heart, The Goo Goo Dolls, Dokken and Trans-Siberian Orchestra. He now devotes his life to educating others about the prevention and treatment of addiction.

 

 

Joseph Shrand emphasizes the importance of feeling valued and is an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and medical director of the CASTLE program for addicted teens at High Point Treatment Center in Brockton, Mass.

Last Post: What Is The Real Price Of Drugs, II? - 11/17/2011
 

Sherry Gaba is a psychotherapist and life coach specializing in individual, couples, family and group psychotherapy. Gaba maintains a private practice in Agoura, Calif. Her treatment approach is to provide support and practical feedback to help clients resolve current problems and long-standing patterns.

 

Last Post: Keys To Being An Eternal Optimist - 5/9/2012
 

Recovering mentoring is about using wisdom — the process of tempering knowledge plus experience.

Last Post: Coaches In Recovery - 8/18/2011
 

The founder of the Addict's Mom organization takes readers on a journey through the lives of many mothers who have been invaded by the destruction of addiction.

Last Post: A Letter of Hope - 5/3/2012
 

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