Intention – Basic Steps Mental Health

12 Steps vs Spiritual Psychology

Scott Alpert — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:23:55 +0000

When somebody remarked in group that our program is not the 12 Steps, a fire was ignited. And no, it is not. When I was admitted into graduate school, I had been working at a 12-Step facility for years and quickly learned that this was the real thing. This is not to say that the […]

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How to Climb Out of the Rut

Scott Alpert — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:28:38 +0000

The picture a client painted of their current situation really impacted me. They felt like they didn’t match up to others, that people were judging them harshly, that they couldn’t meet their own expectations, that they were stuck in a nowhere job, and why did they always feel a sense of doom? When you are […]

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Re-Centering

Scott Alpert — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:00:13 +0000

When the stormy days hit, when you don’t even like yourself, there are a few things you can do to get yourself through until you find that happy foothold again. Spiritually speaking, it is easy to be spiritual on the mountaintop. However, the real challenge is taking that spirituality into the valley. If you find […]

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Conscious Living

Scott Alpert — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:00:39 +0000

What’s familiar is familiar, no matter what it is. Bad relationships, addictions, bad habits. If it is a daily experience then trying to change it takes effort. Are you willing to do so? Hey, I get it. I too have been stuck in the same ol’, same ol’ time and time again, so being stuck […]

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Changing Your Mindset

Scott Alpert — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:18:51 +0000

My panic attacks began when I was a teenager. From that moment my only focus was on avoiding them at all costs. Little did I know that with this way of thinking, I was attracting panic attacks to me. I vividly remember waking up in the morning, opening my eyes, scanning if the panic symptoms […]

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Dream Your Dream

Scott Alpert — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:29:56 +0000

It’s that time of year again. The time to set your sights on the new year, create some plans that are unobtainable, disappoint yourself, and then fall back into the same old limiting patterns. Humiliating? Of course, it is. This article was written to improve your odds of obtaining your desires, but in order to […]

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Give and Take

Scott Alpert — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:30:55 +0000

It finally happened, Basic Steps Mental Health now has a waiting list. All I can say is that I am honored by your testimonies and your recommending us to family and friends. Because of this, the way that we have been providing time during the sessions will need to change. From the beginning, we have […]

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Special Memory #3

Scott Alpert — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 17:24:17 +0000

I never knew that being attacked came with mental health work. My job, on occasion, at the Mental Health Urgent Care Center, put me at risk. Our job was to keep the pressure off of the local jails and psychiatric hospitals by handling those people who were highly unstable. From week one, psychotic types were […]

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