\nA Recovery Coaching client of mine shared with me a definite opinion about Daniel Baldwin and Gary Busey from Celebrity Rehab “over – intellectualizing” their disease of addiction. She asked that I share this. What do you think?<\/p>\n
Celebrity Rehab 1 has <\/p>\n Is thinking getting in the way of your recovery? You can <\/p>\n When an addict has enough solid clean time and has been <\/p>\n Baldwin has strong claims of understanding the disease of <\/p>\n I don’t begrudge Daniel Baldwin or Gary Busey, and I wish <\/p>\n Sherry Gaba, LCSW, is a Licensed Psychotherapist and Life and Recovery Coach. She practices in Agoura Hills, Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks, Malibu, Calabasas, and Simi Valley. She also life and recovery coaches all over the world. She is the author of “The Law of Sobriety:Attracting Positive Energy for a Powerful Recovery” and Recovery\/Life Coach and Psychotherapist on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew on VH1. Contact Sherry at sherry@sgabatherapy.com to learn more about her recover\/life coaching, psychotherapist, conferences, workshops, speaking engagements, teleseminars, and webinars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Recovery Coaching client of mine shared with me a definite opinion about Daniel Baldwin and Gary Busey from Celebrity Rehab “over – intellectualizing” their disease of addiction. She asked that I share this. What do you think? Celebrity Rehab 1 has Daniel Baldwin in the first couple of episodes. I must admit, I was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,6,8,10,11,12,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12-steps","category-aa","category-addiction","category-agoura-psychotherapist-westlake-village-psychotherapist-calabasas-psychotherapist-malibu-psychoth","category-celebrity-addiction","category-celebrity-rehab","category-law-of-attraction","category-law-of-sobriety","category-recovery","category-sobriety"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nDaniel Baldwin in the first couple of episodes. I must admit, I was thrilled
\nwhen he decided to leave the center. Not because I wanted him to go out and
\nuse, but because I simply couldn’t take him talking and sucking up airtime
\nanymore. His ego about the knowledge he possessed over the disease of addiction
\nand sobriety and recovery was enough to make me gag. In my opinion, he was a
\nclear case of over-intellectualizing the disease of addiction. He is not alone,
\nGary Busey in Season 2 suffered from the same problem. Both Daniel and Gary
\nattended rehab to “help” the other people that had decided to give sobriety a
\nshot. Um, really? Because when I entered rehab years ago, I could barely help
\nmyself, let alone embrace 12th<\/sup> step work.<\/p>\n
\nover think your disease by thinking about your disease in a clinical sense, a
\nbiological sense and a psychological sense Learning about your disease is not a
\nbad thing, but thinking that you can out think your disease and “beat it” with
\nclinical understanding of the disease and the recovery program is just as
\ndangerous as not surrendering to your disease in the first place. <\/p>\n
\nworking the steps it is suggested that they help another addict by sponsoring
\nanother addict. According to Bill W, the founder of AA, the only way to stay
\nsober is to interact and help another addict, this is the 12th<\/sup> step
\nof the program. Unfortunately, some individuals believe that they are ready to
\ndo this far to early in recovery. Baldwin only had 9 months clean when he
\nre-entered rehab with the thought of using his fame to help other addicts. To
\nsome, this would be to early to begin to 12th<\/sup> step work. When an
\naddict helps another addict, they have embraced the cycle of step work and they
\nhave surrendered fully to their disease. Baldwin doesn’t appear to have done
\nthis. He talks about his disease in a way that separates his disease from
\nhimself personally. This is extremely dangerous. <\/p>\n
\naddiction without acknowledging his surrender to his disease of addiction. He
\ntalks in circles about the threats in the center to his sobriety and his
\nfeeling of discomfort show that he hasn’t dealt with his own centered and
\nselfish ways. It’s all him all the time, the Daniel Baldwin show, and I found
\nit exhausting. I, as an addict in recovery, did not see him as an example of
\nsobriety that I wanted to follow. In the program, addicts are told to find
\nsomeone who has what they have and do what they do. In my opinion, Baldwin had
\na lot of work to do, mainly getting out of his own way. <\/p>\n
\nthem nothing other than peace of sobriety and recovery, and I am grateful that
\nthey were prime examples of the ego of an addict. This is another example of
\nhow Celebrity Rehab really shows all of the real aspects of the disease and the
\npersonality flaws of the addicts. <\/p>\n