Addicts and alcoholics, many times can tell you that their life has been a “living hell.” I have written a book that is still in the works, but the first chapter is titled “Welcome to my Hell.” I hated my life and literally found my life despicable. It wasn’t a new phenomenon, since many that are stuck in that lifestyle can relate to this idea. The police were after me due to warrants I had for numerous arrests and failure to appear for these cases. Everybody I knew was either dead, on the run from the police, in prison, or in jail. I didn’t exactly know what to do. I was a meth addict that was out of control.
I was always looking for that horrible, despicably disgusting crap that had warped my brain and had taken away all of my morals, the people that cared about me, my feelings, and maybe even my soul. I did sometimes fantasize about a normal life, if there really was such a thing; of owning a house, getting married, having a stable job that could provide security without fear of getting arrested and going to jail or prison. If that life existed, I had no idea of how to get it.
I feared that stuff. It literally was killing me, but I didn’t think I could stop because I wasn’t really sure what would happen. I truly believed that I might die without it. How do you stop something that you truly believe is keeping you alive and functioning but killing you at the same time? This is what I believe, to be the true meaning of “between a rock and a hard place.” I am writing this to hopefully give those that may not understand addiction, the thinking process that is sometimes happening with those caught up in the substance abuse problem. Many keep doing it, even though they may not like it because it seems to be the lesser of two evils.
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
30 Day Affordable Drug Alcohol Rehab -Southern California
Serenity Life has created a substance abuse addiction treatment program that enables our clients to experience low cost affordable treatment that works. This simply means that our client's receive the same treatment as they might from a more expensive rehab program. Many recovery programs currently available today, focus specifically on the substance abuse problem, and fail to look at the overall big picture, and the immense effect substance abuse plays in the lives of their clients.
Putting down the drink or drug is just the beginning, and we can not stop there. Most people desire to be happy, successful, emotionally stable, while enjoying some level of peace and serenity in their lives. Serenity Life provides innovative, results oriented outpatient treatment programs that can facilitate making that desire a reality.
Putting down the drink or drug is just the beginning, and we can not stop there. Most people desire to be happy, successful, emotionally stable, while enjoying some level of peace and serenity in their lives. Serenity Life provides innovative, results oriented outpatient treatment programs that can facilitate making that desire a reality.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Top Drug Alcohol Rehab-Serenity Life Rehab
Serenity Life Rehab offers low low cost alcohol drug and addiction treatment. They are also part of the New Life Recovery Network.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Who Is Serenity Life Alcohol Drug Rehab?
Eric McCoy is one of the creators and founders of Serenity Life Counseling. Having worked in the field of addiction for over seven years, he has a vast array of knowledge in treating and identifying the very specific needs of each individual that comes through the doors.
He has a real passion in helping each client find that purpose, passion, and direction they so desperately need in their lives. Eric is a certified addiction counselor that has created a program that will show each client a healthy motivation, teach them good decision making skills with impulse control, help them find that true commitment to sobriety, help them raise their beliefs about themselves, and ultimately empower them with cognitive restructuring.
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He has a real passion in helping each client find that purpose, passion, and direction they so desperately need in their lives. Eric is a certified addiction counselor that has created a program that will show each client a healthy motivation, teach them good decision making skills with impulse control, help them find that true commitment to sobriety, help them raise their beliefs about themselves, and ultimately empower them with cognitive restructuring.
Click here for information of our other staff members.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Serenity Life Drug Rehab offers LOW COST 30 day program
Serenity Life offers an effective and amazing 30 day drug alcohol rehab for recovery of addictions, which typically costs $10,000 dollars LESS than attending a local surrounding addiction treatment rehab in Orange County, California!
What's included at Serenity Life-
1. Addiction Treatment Counseling
2. Group & Individual Therapy
3. Structured Sober Living Housing
4. All Meals
5. Transportation
6. Activities
7. And more...
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Serenity Life-Saves Lives-Outpatient Drug Rehab California
I had the good fortune of being invited to enroll at Serenity Life Counseling late last year. My personal story is not all that unique but let me say this: I have been an acute alcoholic for almost twenty years, probably even longer but I remember that special day that I knew alcohol was going to shape my life. I was only fourteen. I also became a heavy user of narcotics. Through a tortuous last few years in and out of hospitals, DUIs, personal, business and health failures, I finally realized I had to get some help. So after yet another hospital detox followed by yet another relapse and then finally a residential detox followed by a live-in structured-living program, I became an active member of a twelve step program and finally put together some sober time from 4/11/07-1/2/09.
But I had major unresolved issues and had an intensely negative outlook and even though through my newfound sobriety I had more success personally and financially, I was still miserable. After a series of relapses and rehab and detoxes I finally found the one thing that got me sober; jail. I had almost four months without a drink or drug when I was released but I felt terrified and completely inadequate to handle any form of day to day life. I entered an inpatient treatment facility immediately upon my release and that is where I first met Eric McCoy.
He was the program director of the facility and under his watchful, understanding eye; I was able to slowly transition back into emotional sobriety and life. He helped address many of the key issues I struggled with such as low self-esteem, depression and a very unhealthy fatalistic perception of myself and the world around me. Eric was uniquely qualified to get me to take a look at the process of thoughts, emotions, feelings and actions. For the first time I was able to understand on an emotional as well as a clinical, scientific level where many of my self-defeating thought processes stemmed from and how there were actual steps and measures that I could take to deal with life and start to enjoy it and not be so controlled by negative feelings. Eric taught me how to turn my negative perceptions into a far more reality based, proactive way of looking at not just everyday situations but at myself and my life. He brought something new to the table that I desperately needed.
I truly do not know how I could have survived those first months out of jail without Eric's kind, firm guidance. And he knows from where he speaks. He has the up close and personal relationship with substance abuse which for me is a mandatory "degree". I couldn't take anyone seriously who hadn't walked down many of the same paths I have. And Eric has but he brought much more to the table, he had found a solution and it went beyond the basic, standard twelve step programs. Eric has an extremely detailed knowledge of the physiological psychological pharmacological aspects of substance abuse. And this really helped me to be able to look at my "disease" in a whole new light.
For me, I demand facts and Eric's program delivered those facts along with so much more that when he opened Serenity Life Counseling I jumped at the opportunity. Not only did it satisfy my Felony, HI-Control Probation Officer's requirements, Serenity Life Counseling was also accepted by Judge Jones of Harbor Court as meeting the conditions of my strict, heavily monitored court-ordered treatment. Eric appeared in court with me and continued to make sure I was in compliance while he helped me change my thinking. That is the thinking that put me in such a bad frame of mind that I wound up in jail with a $500,000 bond, facing five, seven year term, strike-able felony counts.
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But I had major unresolved issues and had an intensely negative outlook and even though through my newfound sobriety I had more success personally and financially, I was still miserable. After a series of relapses and rehab and detoxes I finally found the one thing that got me sober; jail. I had almost four months without a drink or drug when I was released but I felt terrified and completely inadequate to handle any form of day to day life. I entered an inpatient treatment facility immediately upon my release and that is where I first met Eric McCoy.
He was the program director of the facility and under his watchful, understanding eye; I was able to slowly transition back into emotional sobriety and life. He helped address many of the key issues I struggled with such as low self-esteem, depression and a very unhealthy fatalistic perception of myself and the world around me. Eric was uniquely qualified to get me to take a look at the process of thoughts, emotions, feelings and actions. For the first time I was able to understand on an emotional as well as a clinical, scientific level where many of my self-defeating thought processes stemmed from and how there were actual steps and measures that I could take to deal with life and start to enjoy it and not be so controlled by negative feelings. Eric taught me how to turn my negative perceptions into a far more reality based, proactive way of looking at not just everyday situations but at myself and my life. He brought something new to the table that I desperately needed.
I truly do not know how I could have survived those first months out of jail without Eric's kind, firm guidance. And he knows from where he speaks. He has the up close and personal relationship with substance abuse which for me is a mandatory "degree". I couldn't take anyone seriously who hadn't walked down many of the same paths I have. And Eric has but he brought much more to the table, he had found a solution and it went beyond the basic, standard twelve step programs. Eric has an extremely detailed knowledge of the physiological psychological pharmacological aspects of substance abuse. And this really helped me to be able to look at my "disease" in a whole new light.
For me, I demand facts and Eric's program delivered those facts along with so much more that when he opened Serenity Life Counseling I jumped at the opportunity. Not only did it satisfy my Felony, HI-Control Probation Officer's requirements, Serenity Life Counseling was also accepted by Judge Jones of Harbor Court as meeting the conditions of my strict, heavily monitored court-ordered treatment. Eric appeared in court with me and continued to make sure I was in compliance while he helped me change my thinking. That is the thinking that put me in such a bad frame of mind that I wound up in jail with a $500,000 bond, facing five, seven year term, strike-able felony counts.
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