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Three Years and Counting…

Three Years and Counting…

by David Bowman, LMFT | Dec 15, 2017 | Recovery, Recovery Journal, Therapy

“Relapse is part of recovery,” goes the saying. Not that we welcome relapse … but shit happens.  For myself, and for many of my clients, a relapse after three years of sobriety, or five years of sobriety, is a vastly different affair from our initial climb out of the...

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