Estil Wallace, CEO of Cornerstone Healing Center, interviews Billy Gregg of Choose Hope Interventions Watch as they discuss Coddling, Enabling, and Intervention: Some hard truths when it comes to helping loved ones into recovery. Transcript and Video provided by Estil Wallace, CEO | Cornerstone Healing Center Billy Gregg: You put me on the spot. Estil … Read More “Episode #7 of “The Nameless Recovery Show”” »
Author: Billy Gregg, Interventionist
Billy’s passion and life purpose are to apply effective, innovative, and evidence-based methods that assist clients and families from all walks of life to achieve freedom from addiction and its devastating effects on the family. For the last 3 decades, He has been assisting clients and their families, managing and developing treatment programs, recruiting and training staff, and conducting family interventions. He has enjoyed sharing the message of hope that it is never too early, or too late, to get yourself or a loved one real help. His personal story of hope and recovery started after an intervention with friends, which led him to recognize he had a serious problem. His previous attempts to quit on his own had always failed- he finally accepted that he couldn’t stop without getting help. Billy has remained clean and sober since entering treatment in the summer of 1989 and has assisted thousands of family members and clients in their recovery journey. “The process of Addiction Recovery seems to align with the age-old story of the lost Hero who has to “die unto himself” to rise up, overcome his monsters, be born anew, and then take what is learned and help others. That’s the necessity of hitting rock bottom; the painful chapter of hopelessness and self-centeredness has to come to a close so that we can begin a new life of fulfillment, gratitude, and service.Hope should not be four letter word. The concept of formal, professional drug and alcohol intervention has been around for several decades in the United States. We have come a long ways as a craft and profession since those early formative years. Much of the work starts with helping families understand what an intervention actually … Read More “Common Myths and Misconceptions about Intervention” »
Each person’s individual spirituality is their way of understanding the nature of the world around them and their personal meaning, purpose, and connection to the world. I like to call this the Personal Myth. Myth with a capital “M” to infer profound and sacred, not myth that might indicate falsehood or fakeness. Addiction removes hope from … Read More “ADDICTION, SPIRITUALITY & CONNECTION” »