First Step Consultation – Brian Farr M.S. in Ed., C.A.S.A.C.

              I’ve been told by far healthier people than myself that in a successful Program of Recovery, it’s important to make amends quickly when you’re wrong or when you’ve hurt someone else with your words and actions.  Bill W. and the creators of the 12 Step Program thought this […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K5_YQ_e8hY This clip is from my favorite Simpson’s episode, and I think it’s an excellent (and hysterical) depiction of the weird and often uncomfortable dynamic that happens so often once someone enters recovery. When I stopped drinking, I knew some things would need to change. Like drinking so much, and during most of my free […]

  Since the presidential elections last November, I’ve been doing my best to make lemonade with the countless lemons that keep raining down from the White House.  As a person in long-term Recovery from addiction, a substance abuse counselor, and a professor of Addictions Studies, I’m well aware of the wisdom of The Serenity Prayer […]

  I’ve decided that enough is enough.  According to this recent article in The New York Times, close to 60,000 people died in 2016 as a direct result of drug overdoses, and the number of deaths has continued to rise in 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/05/upshot/opioid-epidemic-drug-overdose-deaths-are-rising-faster-than-ever.html These numbers indicate the striking, undeniable truth that we as a society […]

  July 25th may not have been a significant date for you this year, but for 8-year-old Charlotte McCue and her family it will forever be a day when everything was lost.  At 9:30 p.m. on that night, Charlotte’s life was taken by Alexander West, a 24-year-old man who collided with the boat that McCue […]

As Father’s Day approaches, I am in the bittersweet position of missing my own dad who died nearly 20 years ago, while at the same time being extremely grateful for all I learned from him and from many other men of distinction that have been placed in my life through these years. I owe much […]

I believe that the best moms are the ones that want to have fun with their children, especially in those fleeting years when the kids are young, and the summers seem long. My mother really knew how to rock the summers when we grew up, and I never really appreciated this until I became a […]

  We just wanted some ice cream cones. My family had been to this particular store on our last vacation and we were all looking forward to returning. There are very few foods and even fewer beverages of which I can honestly call myself a connoisseur, but ice cream is the exception to this rule. […]

You won’t be receiving our annual Christmas/non-specific politically correct holiday card sent with love from The Farr Family this year. But it doesn’t mean we don’t love you. And it doesn’t mean we’re getting divorced or going through such a rough time in our lives that we couldn’t muster up enough strength to send out […]

  October 24th of this year marks 15 years of marriage to my wife “and 24 years since we first met”! Although our lives are wonderfully hectic right now, I wanted to take a moment and name the first 15 things that come to mind about why I love Suzanne Kellett Farr, and why I […]