Chemical Dependency Rehab – Case Management
Dear Friends,
The last year has been an incredible adventure. While visiting Cornell in mid November for a home football game, I was approached with the opportunity to speak at an area inpatient chemical dependency treatment center. I accepted, and “the rest is history” as they say.
The experience was one-of-a-kind, and provided me with a new level of awareness, as well as a charge to pursue 
my Masters of Addiction Counseling degree at the Hazelden Graduate School of Addiction Studies in Center City, MN. As I enter my third and final semester at Hazelden, after having worked two clinical internships at Hazelden’s Center City campus, I have accepted a position as Case Manager with C.A.S.T. Recovery (Complete Aftercare Support Team) of Los Angeles, CA. At CAST, I will help to launch the Twin Cities Office and help to empower clients to transition from treatment to recovery lifestyles. C.A.S.T. is an outpatient drug rehab program which specializes in designing highly individualized recovery plans with appropriate professionals to support a client’s health, accountability, and success. This, you may have noticed, is a natural extension of my life coaching skills and experiences.
I am excited about where my life has taken me and the opportunity C.A.S.T. affords me. I am at-the-ready to share with you how my education, training, and life’s experiences can be of service to you and/or others you may know.
Please do not hesitate to call upon me at any time to ask questions, gain insights, or to simply say “hello.” All communications will be held in strict confidence.
Best Regards,
David B. Bohl
Case Manager
CAST Recovery
DavidB@CASTRecovery.com
www.CASTRecovery.com
If you consider yourself a “worry wart” it may not be your fault. You probably grew up raised on worry. It was a common theme of those raised in the post WWII era. If our parents weren’t worried about money, they worried about our getting into an accident or getting good grades in school or you name it.
Ah, senioritis – that nearly indescribably lightness of spirit and release from your previous existence as a dedicated student that makes life so difficult for senior-year teachers.
Who told you that you had to do everything by yourself?
I know it may be hard to believe, but the meaning of life is determined by the meaning you give it. What I mean by that is that most of what we experience in life are not black and white facts. As a matter of fact, very little of what we have believed to be “factual” or “reality” is actually subject to each individual’s interpretation, perspective, analysis, or perception–that is the meaning we give it.
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If you are alive on this planet, you will encounter obstacles. You just can’t escape them. You can have the most well-thought out plan or strategy of where you want to go and how you want to get there. But along the way, unexpected twists and turns show up in the form of obstacles and challenges. They are detours on our direct route to our goals. We can’t escape these obstacles, but we can face them and watch them turn into opportunities.
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