WHO do I serve?
I guide families looking for the reestablishment of healthy emotional connection to those they love and to finally end their unhealthy relationship to the experience of addiction forever.
Timothy Harrington, Founder
I believe in supporting the whole family: mind, body, spirit. I realize emotional, physical, psychological and spiritual well being are intertwined.
I believe, while it’s important for a loved one to realize that they might have an illness, or a disorder, they are much more than that. We are so much more than our struggles. I get to help someone figure out on their own who they really are. Instead of saying 'You're an addict', ‘You’re bipolar’ or ‘You’re schizophrenic,’ I get to help someone feel comfortable and say, ‘I’m a person, not my diagnosis or label.’” The point is to move forward in life.
Adopting an "addict" identity can be especially problematic for young people whose identities are not yet fully formed. Doing so may make what may well be a transient problem into a long-term one, by teaching them that addiction is inevitably chronic and relapsing. Since no one can predict which youth will “mature out” of addiction and which will not, teens should never be forced to attend 12-step groups—nor should they be made to label themselves as "addicts". I do not subscribe to the word addict, at all. It's a stereotype that creates a barrier to accessing guidance. I prefer person experiencing addiction, person who uses drugs, person experiencing a Substance Use Disorder.
I'm a guide not a clinician. I don't give medical advice. I strongly believe that working in tandem with healthy, compassionate, clinical professionals is absolutely crucial to the process of transformation and healing.
Each family member is unique and is treated that way. I don’t see my clients as a diagnosis.
"The words most frequently used to describe what we do includes the following: identify, engage, encourage, motivate, share, express, enhance, orient, help, link, consult, monitor, transport, praise, enlist, support, organize, and advocate"
- Timothy Harrington, Chief Empowerment Officer, Sustainable Recovery™, Inc.
I believe, while it’s important for a loved one to realize that they might have an illness, or a disorder, they are much more than that. We are so much more than our struggles. I get to help someone figure out on their own who they really are. Instead of saying 'You're an addict', ‘You’re bipolar’ or ‘You’re schizophrenic,’ I get to help someone feel comfortable and say, ‘I’m a person, not my diagnosis or label.’” The point is to move forward in life.
Adopting an "addict" identity can be especially problematic for young people whose identities are not yet fully formed. Doing so may make what may well be a transient problem into a long-term one, by teaching them that addiction is inevitably chronic and relapsing. Since no one can predict which youth will “mature out” of addiction and which will not, teens should never be forced to attend 12-step groups—nor should they be made to label themselves as "addicts". I do not subscribe to the word addict, at all. It's a stereotype that creates a barrier to accessing guidance. I prefer person experiencing addiction, person who uses drugs, person experiencing a Substance Use Disorder.
I'm a guide not a clinician. I don't give medical advice. I strongly believe that working in tandem with healthy, compassionate, clinical professionals is absolutely crucial to the process of transformation and healing.
Each family member is unique and is treated that way. I don’t see my clients as a diagnosis.
"The words most frequently used to describe what we do includes the following: identify, engage, encourage, motivate, share, express, enhance, orient, help, link, consult, monitor, transport, praise, enlist, support, organize, and advocate"
- Timothy Harrington, Chief Empowerment Officer, Sustainable Recovery™, Inc.
We Meet You Where You Are!
- My goal is to bring the "unengaged" and their families into recovery by thinking differently about addiction, its treatment & how one overcomes or recovers.
- I enlarge the all or nothing abstinence approach & give those in need a choice in the kind of recovery available.
- I engage & guide people whether they want to stop using drugs or not.
- I am not obsessed with drugs or their use.
- Rather than demand one ceases all substance use prior to treatment, I can create a process that is willing to meet people where they're at & work with them while they’re still using drugs. Harm reduction is evidence-based.
- Services include family addiction recovery guidance, peer mentoring & referrals to top medical doctors, psychiatrists and therapists.
Potential Results of Utilizing My Approach
- decrease the number of people “lost” from waiting lists to enter addiction treatment by setting up “PRE-HAB” ;
- enhance treatment retention and completion;
- increase post-treatment recovery outcomes;
- delay the time period from discharge to first use following treatment (enhancing development of recovery capital, which is the sum total of all the personal, social, and community resources a person can draw on to begin and sustain his recovery from drug and alcohol problems);
- prevent resumption of use from becoming a total disaster through early intervention;
- shorten the number, intensity, and duration of resumption of use episodes following treatment;
- decrease treatment readmission rates (slow the revolving door of treatment);
- decrease the time between resumption of use and re-initiation of treatment and recovery support services (preserving recovery capital and minimizing personal and social injury);
- readmission to less intensive, less expensive levels of care;
- reduce attrition in first year affiliation rates with AA and other sobriety- based support groups;
- enhance recovery capital (e.g., employment, school enrollment, stable housing, healthy family and extended family involvement; sobriety-based hobbies, financial resources) and self-defined quality of life.
Sustainable Recovery™
With You From Start to Flourish!
Contact Timothy Harrington
Telephone: 323-804-5555
With You From Start to Flourish!
Contact Timothy Harrington
Telephone: 323-804-5555
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