Thanks, I did find her obituary online. It gives me comfort to know that she is with our Lord who will show her both the positive and negative effect she has had on people. He will speak to her on our behalf and she will have clarity. I wish her peace and rest. Goodbye Maureen.
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Maureen has passed away? That is what I gathered from the last entry. Does anyone know for sure?
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My exit from Choices I had a friend who got out about 6 months before me. Luckily she offered to let me live with her. It was one of the hardest things I have ever done because the group had already deemed her as "relapsed beyond repair" and had shunned her. I was having alot of problems with my current roomate at the time and was at the point where I didn't even want to talk ab
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Social Therapy, is that like Gestalt Therapy? I have been through something similar and I posted about it on the Choices Counseling Center blog.
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I feel you. I am a choices escapee myself. I got some good things from them but the side effects were not worth it. The hardest thing I ever did in my life was to leave that place and not look back. I had been there for 5 years and all of my friends were there. I had alienated my family, who thought I had joined a cult and had to have other clients come with me to visit them. I went in primarily
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