“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies within us are all the experiences, interactions, emotional
styles, physicality, nervous system responses, generational memories,
styles of behavior, values and...
Thirty years ago, when I first started working in addiction treatment, the average patient was middle age, white, male, employed, with intact family and alcoholic. At the time, about 15-20% were women, usually alcohol and/or Valium addiction. The patient population was usually late-middle to...