by David Bowman, LMFT | Feb 10, 2025 | Addiction, Featured, Recovery
“Relapse is part of recovery,” goes the saying. Not that we welcome relapse, but it happens. For myself and for many others, a relapse after a years-long period of sobriety is a very different affair from our initial climb out of the world of substances. At this later...
by David Bowman, LMFT | May 1, 2018 | Featured, Recovery, Recovery Journal, Therapy
Jungian therapists see the roots of addiction growing in the need to escape the loneliness of human existence. In “The Art of Loving,” Erich Fromm show us how we manufacture romance, and even love, as palliatives for the pain and anguish of being alone in...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Nov 15, 2017 | Couples, Therapy
Conventional wisdom among therapists is that couples tend to wait to do couples’ counseling until it’s too late to save the relationship. That may or may not be true, but it misses the point. Whether the relationship can or should be saved, dissolved, or morphed...
