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Jef DeWitt
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May 8, 2022

Facing Addiction One Drug At A Time

One of the best things that happened to me was facing my drug addiction. It nearly killed me. But it taught me lessons that kept me alive. Lessons that, fortunately, most people never have to learn. At age 30, I went to rehab (on Valentine’s Day). At 32, I was…

Mental Health

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Facing Addiction One Drug At A Time
Facing Addiction One Drug At A Time
Mental Health

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Apr 25, 2022

Emotional Intelligence

Relationships often end with a whimper, not a bang. It’s the small, seemingly insignificant efforts that build connection and earn trust. We tend to focus on the big things like faithfulness and honesty. Those things are important. …

Love

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Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence
Love

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Jan 28, 2022

Dear Non-Sober People

Research by Lipari and Van Horn (2014) concluded that roughly eighty percent of those with a substance use disorder (SUD) cite alcohol as the substance. It makes sense then that most people associate sobriety with not drinking. For the sake of this article, I’ll keep my focus there. I have…

Mental Health

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Dear Non-Sober People
Dear Non-Sober People
Mental Health

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Jan 12, 2022

Don’t Wait To Feel Ready

According to Internet Live Stats (Internet Live Stats, n.d.), roughly 7.5 billion blog posts are written per day. In four months that amounts to a trillion blog posts. Those numbers discouraged me. I thought that more qualified people had already written everything I’m writing now. I doubted I could bring…

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Don’t Wait To Feel Ready
Don’t Wait To Feel Ready

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Dec 28, 2021

Addiction Recovery Belongs On A Resume

Here are the top-5, ‘must-have’ resume sections, according to Michael Tomaszewski, Career Expert at Zety (Tomaszewski, 2021): Personal Information: 99.85% of resumes. Work Experience: 98.33% Education: 97.25% Skills: 89.81% Summary or Objective: 88.75% Where would addiction recovery fall? Under personal information? Or is it a skill? The point of resumes…

Mental Health

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Addiction Recovery Belongs On A Resume
Addiction Recovery Belongs On A Resume
Mental Health

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Dec 14, 2021

Positivity As A Skill

Positivity is a hard skill to master. It requires working to bolster it and build muscle behind it. It means choosing it over and over until it becomes reflexive. Rarely are our paths smooth or straight. We’re faced with setbacks that challenge and discourage us. Progress isn’t always linear. Sometimes…

Mental Health

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Positivity As A Skill
Positivity As A Skill
Mental Health

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Nov 30, 2021

Embrace Struggling

According to the National Institutes of Health, ten percent of Americans have struggled with substance abuse at some point in their lives (NIH, 2015). That’s over 30 million people. I’m one of them. My own journey to openly discuss matters like addiction and therapy was a bumpy one. But I…

Mental Health

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Embrace Struggling
Embrace Struggling
Mental Health

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Nov 19, 2021

Talking About Sobriety in the Workplace

According to the National Institutes of Health, ten percent of Americans have struggled with substance abuse at some point in their lives (NIH, 2015). That’s over 30 million people. I’m one of them. I’ve written this post to promote normalizing discussions around substance abuse and addiction in the workplace. Why…

Sobriety

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Talking About Sobriety in the Workplace
Talking About Sobriety in the Workplace
Sobriety

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