By Jeff Vircoe The letter arrived this week, just like it does each year. Enclosed in a box, surrounded by love in the form of a collection of warm toques, it is addressed to the 80 or so inpatients who will be spending Christmas 2017 inside the walls of Edgewood addiction treatment centres. In the … Read more
By Jeff Vircoe There is a saying in Addiction treatment that, sometimes, the voice of addiction is louder in the building than the voice of recovery. In the cities of Nanaimo, B.C. and St. John, N.B., the voice of recovery is loud and clear twice a week. And it has a distinctly Edgewood sound … Read more
By Jeff Vircoe The value of living life one day at a time is high, at least if you judge by how many places the advice can be found. Spiritual and religious leaders, philosophers and psychologists, and all kinds of self-help advocates frequently offer up the suggestion of living life in manageable increments. When it … Read more
By Jeff Vircoe Leonardo da Vinci is often credited with saying that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Albert Einstein put it this way: If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself. The message behind both? Keep it simple. The history of recovery from addiction tells us that if … Read more
How many times have you vowed to stop drinking in the new year only to disappoint yourself or your loved ones? January seems like the perfect time to start fresh. People have the best intentions to do something that will improve their life and their emotional well-being but do these new years resolutions actually work? … Read more
