Exclusive Alcohol Rehab for the High-Profile
Executive or Professional

My experience, however, shouts that it is possible. If you have an alcohol problem, whether alcohol abuse, excessive drinking or outright alcohol addiction, our program is your gateway to conquering it, that is, to achieving full, permanent recovery.

I know you can achieve it. I've done it myself, and I've mentored others through the process.

Anyone can quit drinking, but conquering alcohol is a change process based on choice and resolve. Appropriate coaching/mentoring can save your day as you transition from a lifestyle punctuated by drinking to a new, happier, more productive life.

But first, when it comes to alcohol rehab, let's be clear about what conquering alcoholism and achieving full recovery is and is not...

What Full Recovery from Alcoholism Is Not:

• It is not just quitting drinking or cutting down.
• It is not a quick fix without impact on yourself and your family.
• It is not a passive process. It is not just waiting for change.
• It is not just talking about it in AA or therapy.
• It is not about flying off to an alcohol rehab resort center for two months. (Many return more convinced than ever that full recovery is impossible.)

What Conquering Alcoholism Means:

• It is a long-term change process beginning with making a choice to quit drinking and redefine your life without alcohol.
• Your first action is to quit drinking and go through detox if necessary.
• It is an active process of replacing short-term with long-term benefits.
• It is an active process of replacing alcohol-related lifestyle habits with new, life-enhancing habits.
• It is an active process of adjusting to the changes in others that inevitably will follow the changes you make.
• In short, full recovery equals conquering alcoholism.
• It is permanent. You never have to go through alcohol rehab again.

Victim One is Work: Alcohol abuse dulls your focus and saps your energy. If your drinking pattern involves lunchtime drinking, you lose forever at least an hour or two a day of productive time. I remember spending many a foggy afternoon wishing it would be over so I could go home and pour myself a drink. How much time has vanished from your work days?

Victim Two is Family: The biggest spousal lament is that their husband or wife is "not present" when they are drinking, leaving them feeling lonely and neglected.

Victim Three is Health: Excessive drinking causes a myriad of health problems, sometimes immediate, sometimes delayed. Alcohol nearly killed me before I caught on to what was happening.

My son became a heavy-duty alcoholic as an adult. He stopped drinking, went through an alcohol rehab program and created a new life for himself. However, he died of liver cancer a few years later.

My alcohol-addicted daughter didn't catch on in time and developed a liver disease. Then suddenly, while fighting an infection, her liver shut down and her other organs soon followed.

Nicotine is Much More Addictive than Alcohol

The answer: Everyone knows cigarettes are bad for you, and you are surrounded by former smokers. In other words, wherever you look, you see good models of what's possible. "If she can do it, so can I."

However the field of alcoholism and alcohol rehab is plagued by myths, half truths and outright lies.

The AA movement has pushed the disease concept of alcoholism to the point where one survey found 81% of Americans believe the claim that alcoholism is a progressive, incurable disease. (But take heart in the fact that in another study, 80% of doctors said that alcoholism was not a disease, but just bad behavior.)

When you look around for models of successful alcohol rehab, you don't like what you see.

• On the one hand, those who have fully recovered are invisible, because they were never public about the fact they had an alcohol problem in the first place.
• On the other hand, the ones you see are either those who quit, but are now drinking more heavily than ever, or the men and women who now appear to have substituted an addiction to AA meetings for their addiction to alcohol. Yuck!

In the end you are left with very few or no models of full, permanent recovery from alcoholism. They are there; you just don't see them.

A man I knew to be self-destructing with alcohol told his distraught wife, and then me, "I am not going to stop drinking. I refuse to be in recovery for the rest of my life." He had bought into the popular claim that full recovery is impossible. Sad, but it's a very common fear among those who abuse alcohol.

I get angry when I hear otherwise good people telling others they will have to be in recovery for life. For me, if it had come down to a choice between

• ongoing alcoholism, or
• a life of perpetual recovery with endless meetings,

If you are a woman reading this, I ask you, "Haven't you and your female colleagues and friends been rendered powerless enough times in your lives? Do you need yet another male-created organization preaching powerlessness to you?"

I asked the program manager of a high-end drug and alcohol rehab center what distinguished his program from others. He replied, "Step one; we really emphasize step one." I pushed back, "That's it?" He retorted, "That's all that's necessary."

A prestigious treatment center with a world reputation for their addiction treatment and recovery support fired a friend of mine, a qualified professional addictions counselor. The director of the program pointed out to him that his clients were not relapsing. He went on to explain that the Center's economic viability depended on its clients relapsing and recycling through the program.

In the face of all the contradictory claims about alcohol rehab, is it any wonder that it takes a strong and determined person to form a clear intention to recover fully from a drinking problem and to search out the appropriate help to achieve it?

As you explore what help is out there, beware the minefield! You are faced with a multi-billion dollar drug and alcohol rehab industry with a focus on residential addiction treatment centers. Most such rehab centers are in remote resort-like locations, and they compete with one another on the size of their swimming pools or the fame of their chefs. But be careful, lest you get caught by surprise with one of the following.

• You will be cut off from your business and family. Did you know that many a person has paid their tuition, only to find out when they got there that the use of cell phones or laptops is forbidden during the six-week program?
• You are going through major life change, but the counselors have little or no training in the new change technology.
• Most alcohol rehab centers have 12-step programs and depend on keeping you recycling through recovery and relapse.
• They will try to convince you that you have an incurable disease.
• They have an outlook of limitation.
• Many centers have undereducated staff with limited professional experience. After all, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to preach a one-size-fits-all doctrine.
• Most of the frontline counselors have not lived long enough to have paid their tuition in the school of hard knocks, where they might have garnered some wisdom.

Let me ask you a hypothetical question? Would you ask an IRS auditor for advice about how to pay less tax and fast grow your company? No?

Then why would you put your trust in an alcohol rehab program that begins with the assumption you cannot conquer alcoholism and you cannot succeed with full, permanent recovery?

• Your business acumen is restored to its former sharpness, but seasoned with greater wisdom.
• You live with a renewed sense of purpose.
• Without the alcoholic fog, your clarity of thought surprises even you.
• You have more daytime energy for getting things done.
• Being conscious in the evenings provides a context for getting your marriage back on track.
• Your heath is better and you feel like doing more active things.
• You no longer crave alcohol, although you sometimes miss it. But your life is so much better now, that you would not consider a return to that life.
• Life feels better than it has in years. In short, you are thriving on life.

Picture yourself getting home from the office on a Friday afternoon. You have been at the top of your game all week. To top off a great week, one of your junior colleagues that afternoon commented on how you had inspired him to achieve more that week.

You have a fun weekend coming up: diner and a movie with your partner tonight, a big game tomorrow and a family barbeque with the children, their spouses and the grandchildren on Sunday.

As you go into your house, you reflect on your good health and your abundant life. You feel a mixture of pride and thankfulness.

Discover the alcohol rehab option the residential treatment industry
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The program follows a new model for alcohol rehab, designed for high-profile men and women who require absolute privacy and no interruption to their professional lives. It is custom-built on your strengths, needs, desires and circumstances.

Your investment in our alcohol rehab system is within the range of what you would make for a high-end resort-type drug and alcohol treatment center, but without the cost of a long absence from work and without the risk of your drinking problem becoming public knowledge.

How does it work?

Question One. What if I invest in your program and conquer alcoholism in less than a year?

The additional changes that follow a major change such as quitting drinking may continue for a few years. Just when you think all has settled down, something else changes. I've seen this happen to many people after leaving alcohol.

In my own case, a month after I quit drinking, I felt better than I had in years. Little did I know that that one change would ripple through my life for the next few years.

It is during the lulls that you build resilience in the context of change. Your needs dictate where we go in the mentoring. At any point in time, one client may be dealing with a corporate comptroller who isn't doing his job. Another may be assisting a drug-addicted adult child. Yet another may be exploring changing professions.

The point is that as we go where the coaching/mentoring takes us, the pull of the bottle weakens, so that eventually alcohol use disappears from your identity and consciousness.

During the recent extreme distress and depression that came with watching three of my adult children die in a two-year period, I don't recall it ever even occurring to me that I might want a drink.

Question Two: "How can you do all that?

Simple: Since there is only one of me, I will accept a maximum of ten new clients per year. That number could go up slightly, if I decide to phase out my private practice in 2010 or 2011. But for now the maximum is ten, roughly one new client per month.

Question Three: "Why are there no testimonials? I would like to read what others have said about your program."

Simple: My clients require complete confidentiality and privacy, and that's what I provide. It's frustrating not being able to share the feedback, and I have lived with that for years. The confidentiality and privacy blanket will extend to anything you might say to me about your experience in the program.

Question Four: I definitely want to stop drinking, but there's lots I don't want to change. Does that matter?

Answer: There is much that won't change, at least, not in a negative direction. However, much will change. And it is in the nature of change that you can't know in advance what will change and what will not.

In my experience, the best strategy to get the most benefit from any alcohol rehab program is to put everything on the table and let the changes work through. In the long run you'll be glad you did, as I was.

I want to work with only those committed to succeed in achieving full recovery. That's why there must be a qualification process for acceptance into our alcohol rehab program.

Are you ready to conquer alcoholism/alcohol abuse for good?

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Dr. Neill Neill, Ph.D (Psychology), D-CEP