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Change happens. Sometimes it’s rapid. Sometimes it’s so slow you wonder if it’s ever going to really change. One such “is it ever going to really change” movements is the Women’s Rights Movement. In my “before,” I studied the Women’s Rights Movement and wrote two biographies, one on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and one on Susan…
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 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…
Read MorePrescription Drug Abuse – an Epidemic?
Prescription drug abuse occurs when a person takes someone else’s prescribed medications or they take their own but not as directed by their doctor. (For more on this, check out Prescription Drugs – What’s the Big Deal?) James White approached me to write a guest post about the prescription drug abuse problem, which he shares…
Read MoreMothers in Recovery – Documentary Film by Sheila Ganz
On Life’s Terms: Mothers in Recovery is a powerful documentary film by Sheila Ganz. In her guest post below and through her blog, OnLifesTerms.org, Sheila introduces readers to this film, which she created to raise awareness about what needs to happen in order to help mothers struggling with addiction keep their children while they pursue…
Read MoreThe Brain and the Secondhand Drinking Connection
Understanding the brain and the secondhand drinking connection is powerful and lays the groundwork for my next two posts, “Causes of Secondhand Drinking,” and “The Fight-or-Flight Stress Response System (FFSRS) – Secondhand Drinking’s Best Friend.” Today’s article is Part 3 in BreakingTheCycles.com’s celebration of April as Alcohol Awareness Month, 2014. So, in case you missed the…
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