PREHAB

Essentials for Successful Change

by
Colin Swift
Rehabilitation Counselor

Contents

Foreword

     While compiling this book, I had the opportunity to travel across this vast country and speak with a great many people; people from every walk of life. The employed and the unemployed, retired Americans, military personnel, tourists, immigrants, and even illegal aliens, all seemed willing, almost compelled to share their stories with me. I lunched with the wealthy and dined with the derelict. I saw hospitals and clinics, treatment centers and police stations. I met with Native Americans. I talked with receptionists and managers, heads-of-companies and the common worker on an assembly line. And from all these new contacts I can faithfully report that we are in trouble.

     I’m not talking the economy here, or about swine flu. I’m talking about the addictive state of the Union.

     Worse now than ever, addiction to drugs, alcohol, electronics, media, negative thinking – this list goes on and on – has swept from East to West and back again so many times that almost every American is wrapped in some way by addiction and its many tentacles that squeeze us daily.

     Many Americans joke about their addictive state. A common response to seeing my literature is, “Rehab? That’s for quitters” followed by sheepish grins and distorted smiles; faces that cannot hide the truth from themselves and others. Every man, woman, or child that I spoke to either was, or knew someone who was, in immediate trouble due to addiction. From boardrooms to athletic fields, everyone I approached had an example of the need for this book.

     So, I’ve written this book to help someone in need successfully complete drug or alcohol rehabilitation, but the essentials can apply to any situation where someone wants to perform as best as possible. PREHAB will enhance drug rehab. Used alongside the Twelve Steps, while working privately with a counselor, or while experiencing any complex situation, these principles will help anyone with their challenge of sobriety.

     Although I’ve centered this book on drug and alcohol abuse, my battle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) also helped form these principles.

     Putting these principles to work upon anything is the essence of FREEHAB: to free you from whatever ails you. Whether it’s relationships, study habits, sports, managing money, or finding employment; everyone can benefit by reading this book.

     This book is also about dreaming and whether or not you are fulfilling your dreams. Alcohol and drug addiction removes us from our dreams both physically and spiritually. This is especially dangerous for cultures that rely on dreaming as part of their daily life’s experience. The various Native American Indian tribes ravaged by genocides conducted against them just a scant 150 years ago were once perfectly attuned people who used medicinal and ceremonial drugs to explore dream states. Introduced to alcohol during the torturous US expansionism of the West, these now broken and scattered nations had to watch as a great many of their young turned to alcohol and drugs as a means of coping with the restrictions placed upon them. This insidious abuse has caused irreparable damage to their once thriving culture. The principles outlined in PREHAB may help assist tribal leaders in their outreach to native youth.

     This book is a starter kit for revisiting your dreams and rediscovering your purpose in life. This book is designed to show you a doorway, rehabilitation, which you can walk through, and that may lead you back to dreaming your dream and making it come true.

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