A Revolutionary New Approach To
Personal Growth
And Recovery From
Excessive, Compulsive, and Addictive Behavior
 

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Have you ever noticed that after you have implemented a personal growth program ultimately went back to your old ways.  

Have you ever noticed that after you overcome one behavior or emotioal problem, another takes it place?

Typically one of the underlying characteristics of being unable to grow or overcome a behavior problem is our attitude.  These types of struggles often affect our attitude.  Are you optimistic about change or are you a pessimist?.  

Click to see YOUR real level of optimism.

If you have tried different or even the same programs over and over and they still don't work for you, then maybe you are ready to re-examine your approach! 

ARE THESE REALLY SOLUTIONS OR NOT???

Personal Growth  - People seek personal growth  in many forms: books, workshops, and personal growth groups.  We see, A Course in Miracles, Transactional Analysis, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), EST, The Forum, Anthony Robbins Date With Destiny, Mind Spring, Life Leadership and more.  When all is said and done, all of these approaches offer lots of ideas and concepts but...

• They all offer different twists to the same theme, yet they are not connected and each one claims unique individuality.
• They all seem to need a foundation so that the student can both un-learn the current learned behaviors and un-learn the patterns behind the behavior so to be able to truly implement the desired new thinking and behaviors from these other programs.
• Study groups form to read and understand the material in hopes to better retain the material.  However, because of event learning and not process learning, over time most of the ideas fade and then most people still return to the old ways.

Addiction Recovery  - People seeking recovery from excessive, compulsive and addiction recovery have used the medical model with its use of chemicals, the psychiatric model with its counseling and therapy, and the self help model with its motivational, inspirational, Rational Recovery with its focus on logic, and The 12-Step Program with its 98 variations.

• The Medical model says we can control the chemical imbalance with more chemicals.  However addiction to prescription drugs is one of today's most serious problems.
   
• The Psychiatric model says "we know how you SHOULD THINK and we have the skills to get you to adapt to our values and way of thinking."
• However, "in one 14-year period, more Americans died in psychiatric hospitals than were killed in World Wars I and II, the Korean, Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars combined..." Citizen's Commission on Human Rights International
• It is the position of most of the psychiatric community that since most people can't change and that the solution is to blame and replace the people in their lives.
• Furthermore, "85% of all individuals who seek counseling / therapy without their spouse end up in divorce" said Gina Robertson PhD.
• In her book "Manufacturing Victims", Dr. Tana Dineen exposes her own  psychological profession as an industry and clearly discloses the harm that the psychological industry is doing to people. 
   
• The Self Help Models uses the 12-step program in its 98 variations says to "turn your life and will over to the care of God to remove our addictions" or "tells us to listen to others tell us how THEY will teach you WHAT to think (not how to think) to recover, based on their individual interpretations of value." "I" can't but "WE" can.  The answer ultimately lies in the unity we create.  However, even though this is considered the best of the recovery programs and the oldest (formed in 1935), the real facts are found in the following statistics...
• 45% of the people who attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings never return after their first meeting.
• 95% never return after the first year.
• Based on AAWS' (Alcoholics Anonymous World Services) own statistics Alcoholics Anonymous has only a 5% retention rate.
  
• Those who left AA look elsewhere, such as conventional alcohol rehab and drug treatment centers for solutions, but 93-97% of conventional, drug rehabilitation and alcohol treatment centers are 12-step or AA based, thus individuals essentially rejoin AA.

Sadly enough even with these results, ultimately both the medical model and the Psychiatric model send the patient to the 12-step community for long-term recovery.  The bottom line is that the self-help model has been the most effective in overcoming addiction to alcohol and drugs with about a 6% success rate based on the total population trying the self help approach.  Various adaptations of the 12-step model have produced lower success rates than that found in AA itself.

Addiction (the inability to control a substance or behavior) is rooted in a "chemical imbalance" condition in the body.  All excessive, compulsive and addictive behaviors are rooted in a clear scientific genetic foundation.   Click To See The Scientific Proof Behind The Genetic-Chemical Cause of Excessive, Compulsive, Addictive Thinking and Behaviors

This condition creates a need to regain the chemical imbalance that the person is experiencing.  To accomplish this many people turn to street drugs.   Click To See The Minute By Minute Statistics Of First-Time Substance Users In A Minute By Minute Report 

How We Are Different

The medical model utilizes a process of the use of chemicals to alter how a person feels and thinks.  It is oriented to helping the person FEEL better.  However, there is no guidance in the process of how to think in terms of problem resolution. No Structure (Self Control).  

The Psychiatric model uses techniques of convincing the person to eliminate what makes them feel bad by accepting the values of what is considered healthy for everyone, as defined by the Psychiatric association.  In other words it teaches what to think based on the values of the therapist.  Counseling / Therapy.

The Self Help Community offers freedom of thought and a set of sound principles but no structure for the implementation.  Thus the primary addiction is addressed but the thought process of the nature of addictive thinking is addressed only on a surface level.

Life Skills U Offers
"Discovery"
A New Alternative

Life Skills U teaches how to think and not what to think.  Then LSU utilizes a unique Discovery Process that helps you find your own answers by teaching principles and not rules:  LSU believes that when you have all the information you will be able to make up your own mind and make decisions that are right for you.  Click to see The Life Skills U Discovery Process.  

 FOR THOSE SEARCHING FOR
 REAL RECOVERY FROM ADDICTION
LIFE SKILLS U OFFERS A THREE-STAGE PROCESS CONSISTING OF:

• Breaking Denial (part 1) – Admitting there is a problem.
• Education – Understanding the true nature of the problem, learning how to think, making new decisions, taking action, and having accountability.
• Ongoing Support – Maintaining and continuing the decision process by participating in an environment that is based on principles, implementing a new way of thinking, and discovering the true nature of one's self.  This foundation of self-awareness creates a platform on which to develop true positive self-esteem and pass through the following fiver critical stages of recovery:
• Denial (part 2) - Admitting to the REAL problem.
• Bargaining - Let's make a deal.
• Anger expressed as hostility, resentment, and/or depression.
• Helplessness - nothing will ever change... it is hopeless.
• Acceptance - .Now we deal with reality and go on with life.

Unless each stage is completed there will be no permanent and long-term recovery.

Opening The Door To Recovery
Breaking Denial (part 1)

Life Skills U offers a unique principle based educational process that incorporates all the above requirements of recovery into a single system.  The Process begins with a FREE class in "Understanding Relationship Problems".  Then follow up classes are available covering four areas of most common interest to the public.

• Creating Teamwork At Home, Work, Worship, and Play
• Practical Spirituality for Understanding and Growth
• Resolving Stress and Conflict in Relationships
• Passage To Adulthood For Adolescents
   

Delivery Of The Information
Is Rooted In Technology

These courses are delivered with a state of the art Parallel Learning Technology that includes off-line education software and on-line discussion rooms with voice over the Internet.  This enables the program to have both structure and accountability for the educational process, discussion for clarity and social/community building without leaving home.

Content Material Includes
(Intervention and Education)

In the middle of the content material is a chapter on the cause and effect of compulsive / excessive behavior which says, ”I understand you don’t have a problem, but if you did have a problem here is what it would look like”.  This is the denial breaker.  Because the topic was about other things the person doesn’t see it coming and therefore has not put up the usual defenses.  Thus the educational process and the intervention are interwoven so as to bring logical answers to emotional reactions.

Technology Provides
Ongoing Support Without Leaving Home

Of all the elements that have proven to be most effective to recovery are meetings.  Meetings allow each person to express what is happening (in a non-judgmental environment) and listening to others express what is working for them.   Because the rooms are online and the person can use an alias, there is complete anonymity.

THE OLD and THE NEW
(For Those Already In Recovery)

Through this unique approach, new people entering recovery as well as many people already in a recovery program often with many years of sobriety, discover that they still struggle with excessive, compulsive and addictive behaviors in other areas including: Chronic worry and stress, Sex / Pornography, Gambling, Eating, Working, Shop-lifting, Control issues, Unfulfilling relationships, Other chemical dependencies like caffeine, nicotine and sugar.

Many feel they may have done something wrong in their existing recovery or that they have not done enough.  Sometimes they leave the program, sometimes they go to another program, sometimes they do more of the things they have already done like service work, working with newcomers, more meetings or a combination of all of the above only to find themselves still stuck.

Many people find it very uncomfortable to talk about their other struggles with their friends, and sponsors within their meetings.  This can often lead to a build up of pressure and consequent deepening of the addictive cycle.  Yet they still struggle to hold onto their sobriety and social position (ego) in the recovering community.  

Until there is RESOLUTION to the unanswered questions in a person's life there will be no peace and no emotional sobriety.

UNTIL NOW there has only been the use of a "professional" or "self help" as a resource to find this resolution.  Both of these approaches require "TOTAL DISCLOSURE" and as a result are not effective for many people.  Part of the excessive, compulsive, and addictive nature is to keep some things a secret.  Thus disclosure is not an option for many people in recovery.

For example, Bill Wilson co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous as a program to help alcoholics stop drinking.  This program has been used as a foundation for numerous other excessive, and compulsive recovery programs.

Through his sobriety, he found that to have physical sobriety was not enough to produce a contented and peaceful life.  He knew that he had to find more.  

EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY FOR RECOVERING ALCOHOLICS

Bill wrote a letter to a friend, later published as an article in "The Grape Vine", AA's monthly magazine and included it in a book of his Grapevine writings titled "The Language of The Heart," in which he saw the path that recovery must take.  Bill said...

"I kept asking myself, 'Why can't the Twelve Steps work to release depression?' By the hour, I stared at the St. Francis Prayer , . . 'It's better to comfort than to be comforted?' Here was the formula, all right. But why didn't it work?

Suddenly I realized what the matter was..."  Click for the rest of the story.

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Emotional / Spiritual Sobriety
For All Addictions

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