| Change your mind, Change your life! |
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| Scott A Spackey- Hypnotherapist, CA Registered Addcition Specialist, Life-Counselor and Interventionist |
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The Mind is everything. What we think, we become.” --Buddha
LIFEMIND:
COUNSELING, ADDICTION TREATMENT, LIFE-COACHING & HYPNOTHERAPY SERVICES:
IN SANTA CLARITA AND SAN FERNANDO VALLEYS
LIFEMIND in Santa Clarita offers a variet of therapeutic services. Scott Spackey is a Certified Hypnotherapist, Life-Coach, CA Registered Addiction Specialist, Interventionist & motivational speaker.
LIFEMIND offers practical, useful strategies for change, not just ideas and talk-therapy. Using multi-dimensional solutions to complex problems, you can finally get RESULTS.
Every individual's potential for perfection is within them. With proper awareness we can access our inner potential; we can achieve improved states of mind and being that will aid in our success in everything we do. Along with real, practical strategies and plans, we can replace old unwanted behavior with new, positive ones. We will no longer try, we will do!
SCROLL DOWN FOR THIS MONTH'S FEATURED EDITORIALS:
LIFE-COACHING YOUR KIDS: THE ROAD MAP TO MATURITY
CRYSTAL METH: LOSE YOUR MIND!
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SANTA CLARITA LIFEMIND PRIVATE DRUG COUNSELING , TREATMENT & INTERVENTION, HYPNOSIS, HYPNOTHERAPY, LIFE-COACH, COUNSELING AND PRIVATE FOR ALL AGES:
ALL LEVELS OF SELF-IMPROVEMENT AND CHANGE:
- ANXIETY
- DEPRESSION
- ADDICTION TREATMENT/INTERVENTION
- RELATIONSHIPS
- SEXUALITY
- SLEEP ISSUES
- STRESS MANAGEMENT
- HABIT CONTROL
- SMOKING CESSATION
- MOTIVATION/SUCCESS
- STUDY HABITS, FOCUS, CONCENTRATION
- CONFIDENCE BUILDING
- PAIN MANAGEMENT
- FEARS & PHOBIAS
- PERFORMANCE ANXIETY
- ADDICTIVE PERSONALITY
- ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER
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LIFE-COACHING YOUR HIGH SCHOOL KIDS:
THE ROAD MAP TO MATURITY
How mature are your kids? Many of them are destined for college, but are they ready? There's more to preparing for college than a qualifying GPA and completing the required classes. Many kids still have to be nagged by parents to keep up with their assigned work, follow through with responsibilities and the "unpredictables" that come up frequently. Many of them still don't clean their rooms, get to bed on time, come home on time, do chores, etc. without being told ten times first.. Kids say, "Don’t treat me like a child!" But you have historical proof that if you didn’t nag them and motivate them things wouldn’t get done, "If you act like a child, you get treated like one!"
If kids aren’t capable of managing their day to day to lives, then maybe they're not mature enough yet for what is waiting for them. If your kid is a junior or senior and still needs parental motivation to complete things and get those grades, I can assure you they NOT ready to be independent. Too many of our soon to be graduates are merely looking to college as a way to be on their own and have the best party life YOUR money can buy! But parents feel like they are out of time since high school is almost finished. There's no time left for mistakes so they micro-manage everything. You know you shouldn’t bail them out, but you always say, "one more time" and the cycle continues. But I say, if they don’t fail now and seriously learn from these failures, they will only fail later. Every year of life, the stakes get higher, not lower; the challenges get bigger, not easier. Certainly college failures will be more expensive and esteem damaging than high school ones.
Maturity is an ongoing and life-long process to be sure. But it needs certain milestones to be reached before moving forward can be done properly. Before we move on to college, career, family, home-owning etc. everyone needs to have learned from their mistakes enough to minimize the damage from mistakes that can be had once life gets more serious. If your ids are not properly prepared and mature for each stage they will not succeed at any of these endeavors. What kids need is a Road Map to Maturity. A well defined and structured method by which their maturity can be measured, gauged and coaxed along so that it can actually come to fruition in the amount of time they have left.
As a counselor and Life-Coach, this is my job: I facilitate and accelerate maturity. By working one-on-one with clients and families, I organize and customize a plan for the teen to mature; gauging where they are and where they need to be by graduation and then helping them realize and accomplish each mile-marker on the road map. By the end they can get the grades they need on their own, meet their obligations, manage their lives, do their chores, clean their rooms, wake themselves up, drive to and from on time, get home on time and above all: stay off drugs and minimize or avoid the whole party scene AND GET INTO THE FUTURE!
It requires a lot of work. The teen and the parents need to make changes, but it IS possible. Parents: You can see the finish line! I know- I have a senior in school too. It's exhausting, but you can't give up!
| CRYSTAL METH: LOSE YOUR MIND
It isn't only my opinion that meth is the most sinister and dangerous drug out there. The DEA knows it, addicts know it, the government knows it. I write more often about heroin and opiates so why do say now that meth is more dangerous? Opiate addicts can be, as all addicts, liars and thieves if that's what they need to do to get dope. But compared to meth addicts they are docile. When heroin users are loaded they are usually just taking up space, mellowed in the euphoria of their high. But meth addicts, AKA "tweekers", are speeded out and up all night ready and willing to get into trouble. The drug twists their thinking not only about drugs and morality but it twists their thinking into bizarre patterns that can make them notorious and lethal outlaws. As a meth addict myself, my friends were a grotesque part of a major forgery and crime ring that terrorized the SFV for a decade. The drug is usually combined with bizarre sexual habits that distort the addicts thinking even more.
Meth labs are potential neighborhood bombs with their explosive and corrosive chemicals as meth's main ingredients are an over-the-counter cold medicine boiled down in a propane like fuel. The crazy chemists making their drug often set trip-wire booby traps so law enforcement raiders explode or are exposed to toxic chemicals. A regular part of the meth drug task force is hazmat suits and heavily equipped vehicles that make military humvees look tame. Meth is highly toxic and totally chemical.
Meth affects the adrenal gland and the production of neurotransmitters that heighten awareness to a paranoid state causing meth users to live in a surreal state of conspiracies and delusional drama; awake too long and they see "shadow people", can become violent and similar to a paranoid-schizophrenic. They rarely seek help because, unlike heroin with its physical detox, meth withdrawals make them "crash" (sleep); I once slept almost 20 hours a day for a month when I kicked. The depression from "coming down" is horrifying as a death-like psychological paralysis grips their minds and behaviors, often triggering suicidal or even homicidal thoughts (remember the guy who drove the tank through the streets of socal?). These can last for days or weeks, and even months in a milder form.
I believe it is the hardest drug addiction to treat and as a meth addict I am qualified to do so.
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