Tuesday

July 22, 2014

Smart Bears, Angry Rats

As ye sow, so shall others reap   75 years from now
              The hawk carried the infected snake back to his nest to feed the hatchlings.

One of the four hatchlings would be wounded in power lines.  Crows would pick at his carcass, acquiring the virus.

A second would catch a mouse, bite it, but drop it.  The mouse, one unlucky little fellow, would survive just long enough to be eaten by a fox, who would pass the virus onto her offspring. 

            The third didn't survive the virus.
            The fourth passed the virus onto eleven offspring.

 When we sow the seeds of our own destruction, some are likely to scatter to the wind.

g-NAts

The next challenge

     Over the next two weeks all the g-NAts moved onto individual therapy or aftercare.  A year later I ran into Bob at an AA meeting.

     "How's the car business?" I asked.

     "It's good.  I have somebody running that end of things."

     "That end of things?" I asked.

     "The oil change places were doing so well, I bought a couple of carpet cleaning franchises.  I'm managing that part of my business.  It's a challenge."

     I was happy for him, but I had to ask, "What happened to kicking back and letting someone else worry about business?  Wasn't that your plan?"

     "The more clean time I got, the more I needed to be doing something."

     "So, do you like the carpet cleaning business more than the oil change garages?"

     "Not really.  But once they're up and running, I'm going to try something completely different!

 

Today I will look for the next challenge.

Freebies

This week's freebie is the Kindle version of Hauling it to the Curb: Cleaning up your life in early recovery, available at  http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S

 

 

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Upcoming

Burnout: Clinical, Ethical, & Supervisory Issues
September 12, 2014 at Greenbriar-Robinson
9:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m
$30 payable in advance, at the door, or by invoice after the training

This three hour training is accredited for:

• Addiction Counselors by the Pa. Certification Board
• CRCs  by the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification # 11938191652 and 11938191653 (one hour Ethics portion)
• Counselors by NAADAC #477 and NBCC #6352
• EAPs by the Employee Assistance Certification Commission
• Social Workers by the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work.

To register, simply respond by email to Ken Montrose at kmontrose@greenbriar.net.