For Your Brain ‘s Sake – Step Away From Your Cell Phone, Email…
As someone who began her professional career in “the before” — the before cell phones (let alone Smartphones), before email, before answering machines and fax machines – heck, before the Internet and social networking “opportunities” beyond imagination (FB, Twitter, Pinterest…) – I could so relate to Daniel J Levitin’s January 18, 2105 article for The…
Read MoreAddiction is a Family Disease | S.O.B.E.R. Tells One Family’s Story
It’s not uncommon in discussions about the disease of addiction to focus on the person with this brain disease. But addiction is a family disease because interactions with the person developing the disease [addiction is a developmental disease] affects every member of a family as they try their best to help the person stop. Today’s…
Read MoreFallout of Addiction – Breaking the Cycle | Gary Topley
As you may recall in a previous post by one of our guest bloggers writing about breaking the cycles of addiction, I opened her post with the following: “Breaking the cycle of addiction is greatly helped when a person understands two key things: 1) addiction is a chronic, often relapsing, developmental brain disease, and 2) there…
Read MoreGrandparents Raising Grandchildren of Addicted Parents
There are many reasons grandparents find themselves raising their grandchildren. This article is specifically for grandparents raising grandchildren of addicted parents. In other words, they’ve stepped up because their own adult child is incapable of raising their own child as a result of their addiction. I’m writing this because the ramifications for all concerned – grandparents,…
Read MoreToxic Shame | Guest Author Darlene Lancer
Toxic shame – sometimes called Internalized Shame – is typically at the root of codependency or addiction. Here to help us understand this dynamic and what to do about it is Darlene Lancer, author of Codependency for Dummies and Conquering Shame and Codependency: 8 Steps to Freeing the True You. Darlene’s latest eBook is titled, Spiritual Transformation in the Twelve…
Read MoreHelp for Moms Whose Kids Struggle With Substance Use | Cathy Taughinbaugh
Discovering your child is using or abusing or maybe even addicted to drugs or alcohol can be a mom’s worst nightmare. She is often shocked, guilt-ridden, confused, angry, ashamed, saddened and floundering as she battles the stigma, misinformation and shame to figure out what to do to help her child. And it’s a land mine…
Read MoreSetting Boundaries YOU Can Live With
Last week I wrote a post on setting boundaries with addicted family members and touched on why we keep moving our boundaries and what a person can do to prepare themselves to set and stick to the boundaries they need/want to set. (To re-read that post, click here). This post goes further to give you tools on how…
Read MoreThe Many Victims of Addiction | Kelly Cordova
As Kelly Cordovano writes in her guest post shared here, there are many victims of addiction, including families, friends, coworkers and others who have a relationship to the person with this brain disease. Kelly Cordovano is co-director of Fresh Start Ministries, a men’s rehabilitation center located in Central Florida offering a year-long, residential, faith-based substance abuse program…
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