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Addiction Recovery: The Mind-Body-Soul Approach
Meditation, exercise, and spirituality combined may offer the best chance for addiction recovery.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘A Life Behind Bars’ Written and Performed by Dan Ruth
A longtime bartender's fury at nearly everyone, from NYC health inspectors to an intrusive and homophobic landlady, recollected in tranquility and conveyed with measured energy and often at breakneck speed, delivers not bitterness but symphonic tension and release – and laughs galore.
Read More »The Dangers of Opioid Addiction in Women
There are no simple solutions to the opioid epidemic, in women or in the general population, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t prominent ideas and valuable services that can contribute to harm-reduction efforts.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Motherf**cker with the Hat’ by Stephen Adly Guirgis
This brilliantly acted small-stage revival of the Pulitzer Prize winner's Broadway play dives into the culture of machismo and finds answers elusive.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Strange Country’ by Anne Adams
New Light Theater Project's new production gives us an uncommon triple portrait of common anguish, straight from the strange country of the human condition.
Read More »What’s Love Got to do with ADHD?
Love inspires activity instead of inaction, compassion instead of apathy, humility instead of hubris.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Walking Out the Other Side’ by Alan S. Charles
New memoir, Walking Out the Other Side, shares honest and insightful confessions of a cocaine addict.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): ‘Water By the Spoonful’ by Quiara Alegría Hudes at the Cellar Theater
The 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner comes to San Antonio's Cellar Theater in a well-mounted production.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Breaking Through: Discovering the Riches Within’ by Allan McDougall
The triumphant message in 'Breaking Through' transcends the author's own battle of overcoming addiction and can motivate readers needing to turn their own ship's course.
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