Preventing Secondhand Drinking Is Not About Prohibition
Secondhand drinking is term to describe the impacts on the person who is on the receiving end of another person’s drinking behaviors. Drinking behaviors include: drunken arguments crazy, convoluted accusations verbal, physical or emotional abuse driving while impaired, riding in a car with an impaired driver unprotected, unwanted, unplanned sex, sexual assault blackouts. We rarely…
Read MoreTechnology for Sobriety & Recovery
Recovery and technology make a powerful combo. Just ask Jan Parker! The following guest post is from Jan Parker, Editorial Director and Co-Creator of the Android and iPhone app called Today’s Step: Recovery. Jan has been sober since 1984 and is passionate, supportive and encouraging about the changes that happen in one’s life when we…
Read MoreAlcohol Abuse Going On in the Family? – If Only My Doctor Had Asked
Alcohol Abuse is a drinking pattern that causes Secondhand Drinking (SHD). Secondhand Drinking is term to describe the impacts on the person who is on the receiving end of another person’s drinking behaviors. Drinking behaviors include: drunken arguments crazy, convoluted accusations physical fights verbal, physical or emotional abuse neglect driving while impaired, riding in a…
Read MoreEmotionally Abusive Relationships and the Domestic Violence Connection
Emotionally abusive relationships are one of the tragic outcomes in families with untreated, undiagnosed, unhealthily discussed substance abuse and/ addiction. One of the outcomes of emotionally abusive relationships can be domestic violence. Darlene Lancer shares valuable information about the reasons behind a person’s repeated efforts to stay in a domestic violence relationship. As she explains,…
Read MoreRecovery for Family Members of Addicts | Alcoholics
Recovery for family members of addicts and alcoholics — meaning to really let go of the worry, fear and angst over a loved one’s substance abuse or addiction, to forgive them and oneself for the insanity the disease caused in one’s life, to really understand what it means to set boundaries and let go of…
Read MoreMental Illness – What You Need to Know
Mental Illness Awareness Week 2012 is October 7 – 13. Why should each of us individually care? What can we do as individuals? The Significant Statistics Related to Mental Illness An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a…
Read MoreYoga and the 12 Steps
Yoga and the 12 steps? Really? If you’ve been following this blog, you know that treating addiction (and secondhand drinking, aka codependency, for that matter) is all about healing the brain. And for that healing process – there are many, many options. In other words – there’s no one nor right way to “do” addiction…
Read MoreAA – a Skeptic’s Guide to the 12-Steps of AA
AA – What is it really about? How does a person get involved? How can it help? For one person’s experiences and answers, please read the following guest post by A.J. Adams. ___________________ Hi everyone! I am A.J. Adams*, the author of Undrunk: A Skeptic’s Guide to AA. Before I got to AA, I had…
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