When Your Peers Do Not Understand Your Fears And Addiction Issues
When fears and addiction issues become known – especially to your peers and family – the compounding fears can be crippling. To help you cope with this or if you are the family member wondering what to do about it, please find the following guest post by Stanley Popovich. Stanley is the author of A Layman’s…
Read MoreAnonymous Still
Anonymous Still is a guest post by a mother whose child has the disease of addiction. ____________________ My child is almost 7 and he’s getting ready to go on a campout with his Dad. He ‘s just learned how to ride a skateboard and still calls me Mommy. He has his whole life ahead of…
Read MoreReducing Recidivism Through Rehabilitation
We have important tools to help reduce recidivism through rehabilitation, namely the Affordable Care Act and post-release support, such as that offered by San Francisco’s Transitions Clinic. I am highlighting this combination having listened to a news segment, titled: “Obamacare in Jail: How San Francisco Policy Helps Inmates,” filed by April Dembosky’s for KQED’s The California…
Read MoreDarlene Lancer on Accepting What We Cannot Change
Darlene Lancer, author of Codependency for Dummies, shares her thoughts on accepting what we cannot change… One of the early authors on codependency, Psychiatrist Timmen Cermak, believes that codependents and addicts “control their lives by sheer force of will.” It makes sense that the first step of Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon, and Codependents Anonymous addresses control.…
Read MoreThe Fight or Flight Stress Response – Secondhand Drinking Connection
The following excerpt from my book, If You Loved Me, You’d Stop!, makes me shudder every time I read it. “Who was she?!” I’m sharing it here to help you understand what happens to a person whose fight or flight stress response system is activated over and over and over by secondhand drinking. This post is the…
Read MoreThriving Through PAWS | Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome
Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome – PAWS – can unravel a person’s early addiction recovery. Lisa Hann shares her thoughts on PAWS and the two books she wrote to help people thrive in early recovery in spite of what can often be a difficult period in the recovery process. Lisa is a freelance writer and author…
Read MoreIs That Me Yelling? – author Rona Renner, RN, shares
Our interactions with our children as their brains are developing can have a significant influence on that development and therefore a child’s very being. For that reason, I am thrilled to announce Parenting Coach and Temperament Specialist, Rona Renner, RN and former host of the “Childhood Matters” Radio Show, has a new book, Is That…
Read MoreCauses of Secondhand Drinking
Causes of Secondhand Drinking is Part 4 in this year’s series of posts to celebrate April as Alcohol Awareness Month. In case you missed them, here are links to the first three: Part 1 Alcohol Awareness Month – Two Sides to the Drinking Equation Part 2 Why the Term Secondhand Drinking (SHD) Part 3 The Brain…
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