Honest writing on what really happens inside addiction recovery, intervention, plant medicine, and the family systems behind every relapse and every breakthrough. Written by Preston Durnford from inside the work, not above it.
Recovery mentor is one of the most-searched and least-explained roles in addiction recovery. Most "mentors" advertised online have weeks of training and zero lived experience. Here's the honest version, what a real recovery mentor does day-to-day, who it's for, and how it's different from a therapist, a coach, or an AA sponsor.
The most-searched questions about recovery coaches and plant medicine, answered at the operator level with peer-reviewed research, real pricing, and the honest version most articles won’t give you.
TMS is FDA cleared and the acute course has real evidence behind it, but durability research shows that what happens in the months after the last.
The dosing session, whether IV, IM, or Spravato, is medically supervised and over quickly. What research on ketamine assisted psychotherapy suggests,.
Psychedelic integration is the structured process of making sense of a psilocybin experience in the weeks that follow it. Every major clinical trial.
A look at the research on social support after grief, divorce, job loss, illness, and other hard seasons, and what it actually shows about why.
A trusted person's presence is not just comforting. Research on social baseline theory, stress hormones, and nervous system co-regulation shows it.
It is almost never a willpower problem, and it is almost never proof that your child is hopeless. It is a structural gap between what treatment is.
The final 1 to 2 mg is where most tapers stall, and it is rarely about willpower. Here is what the FDA labeling actually says, what extended release.
The rent, the car, the phone, the food, the treatment bills. The question is not whether you love your child. It is what your money is actually.
Group treatment has a real evidence base, and head to head studies rarely show one format beating the other. What the research does support is the.
Treatment ends on a specific day. What happens in the 30 to 90 days after that day decides more than anything that happened inside the building.
The version nobody writes: shared equity, board exposure, no HR to escalate to, a scripted first conversation, and what to do when it does not land.
Read article →Coaching is not clinical treatment, which changes everything about disclosure, job protection, and who ever finds out.
Read article →An unregulated field, a high-ticket cash-pay decision, and the questions that actually separate a real coach from a good website.
Read article →A straight comparison for founders and executives who cannot vanish for 30 to 90 days, including the situations where inpatient is clearly the right call.
Read article →Six side-by-side comparisons that separate real burnout from a drinking problem, plus the board, diligence, and structural risks that only apply to founders.
Read article →Private 1-on-1 virtual recovery coaching with Preston Durnford + a contracted clinical team. Built for high performers who don’t need inpatient but need accountability, mentorship, and a real plan.
Read article →Hyperlinked to Johns Hopkins, NYU, Imperial College, MAPS, JAMA, NEJM, FDA. The top questions families search, answered with current peer-reviewed evidence.
Read article →Day-to-day responsibilities, what separates real coaches from hobbyists, and the credentials that actually matter when your life is on the line.
Read article →Real pricing, $1,500 to $15,000+ for coaching, $500 to $1,000/day for sober companions, and what drives the difference.
Read article →The honest difference, when you need each, why most serious clients need both, and the clinical-team-plus-lived-experience model.
Read article →Real-world writing from inside the work, not theory, not platitudes. New posts published regularly.
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