12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: Step 6

This series of articles is a PERSONAL perspective/interpretation of The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. The 12 Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous began on June 10, 1935 and has helped scores of people around the world obtain and maintain sobriety from drugs and alcohol. STEP SIX—Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects…

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12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: Step 12

This series of articles is a PERSONAL perspective/interpretation of The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. The 12 Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous began on June 10, 1935 and has helped scores of people around the world obtain and maintain sobriety from drugs and alcohol. STEP TWELVE—Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these…

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12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: Step 11

This series of articles is a PERSONAL perspective/interpretation of The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. The 12 Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous began on June 10, 1935 and has helped scores of people around the world obtain and maintain sobriety from drugs and alcohol. ­STEP ELEVEN—Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact…

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12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: Step 10

This series of articles is a PERSONAL perspective/interpretation of The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. The 12 Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous began on June 10, 1935 and has helped scores of people around the world obtain and maintain sobriety from drugs and alcohol. STEP TEN- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were…

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12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: Step 9

This series of articles is a PERSONAL perspective/interpretation of The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. The 12 Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous began on June 10, 1935 and has helped scores of people around the world obtain and maintain sobriety from drugs and alcohol. STEP NINE—Make direct amends to such people except when to do…

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12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: Step 4

This series of articles is a PERSONAL perspective/interpretation of The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. The 12 Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous began on June 10, 1935 and has helped scores of people around the world obtain and maintain sobriety from drugs and alcohol. STEP FOUR—Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. This…

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12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: Step 3

This series of articles is a PERSONAL perspective/interpretation of The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. The 12 Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous began on June 10, 1935 and has helped scores of people around the world obtain and maintain sobriety from drugs and alcohol. STEP THREE—Made a decision to turn our will and our lives…

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12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: Step 2

This series of articles is a PERSONAL perspective/interpretation of The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. The 12 Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous began on June 10, 1935 and has helped scores of people around the world obtain and maintain sobriety from drugs and alcohol. STEP TWO—Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could…

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12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: Step 1

This series of articles is a PERSONAL perspective/interpretation of The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. The 12 Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous began on June 10, 1935 and has helped scores of people around the world obtain and maintain sobriety from drugs and alcohol. STEP ONE—We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had…

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A Brief History of Play Therapy Methods | Addison, TX

LaShondra Manning play therapy counselor

Play Therapy has an extensive history, dating back to the early 1900s, with counseling and psychology pioneer, Sigmund Freud.  Freud worked with a little boy named “Hans” vicariously and indirectly, based upon his father’s observations. Invention of Play Materials for Free Association and Expression Twenty years later,  Hermine Hug-Hellmuth added the play therapy dimension and…

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