Addiction | Substance Use Disorders | Treatment
How to Stay Sober at Work While Remaining Social | Guest Author Ken Seeley
How to stay sober at work — whether it is after a period of time in a residential treatment center or while navigating your own recovery path — can be difficult enough. But when you add the “pressure” to join in social activities with co-workers or participate in conferences or work-related meetings and events where…
Read MoreHow to Find a Therapist – National Mental Health Awareness Month
How to find a therapist is a frequent question readers ask when they call. They know they or a loved one needs help with something “bad” that happened to them in childhood, a mental illness, or a substance use disorder — sometimes all three. But they are at a loss for how to find someone…
Read MoreOh my grief by MaryBeth Cichocki
“Now he is gone, and I’m told I have to accept and go on. How does a mother learn to accept the death of her youngest child? There are no magic pills that will make my shattered heart whole again,” wrote MaryBeth Cichocki in her 2015 post, Coping With a Son’s Death by Drug Overdose.…
Read MoreWhat to Say to Someone With a Drinking Problem
What to say to someone with a drinking problem? Where to begin! If you’re reading this post, you have likely been hurt, frustrated, concerned, angered, and/or scared by a loved one’s drinking. You’ve likely tried talking, yelling, cajoling, negotiating, looking the other way, believing their promise(s) to stop or cut down, but so far, nothing’s…
Read MoreWhy Was His Abuse So Extreme?
“Why was his abuse so extreme?” was the question recently asked by a reader of one of my blog posts. She had described her loved one’s behaviors over the course of several years, a loved one who had a severe alcohol use disorder. His behaviors directed at her were so mean-spirited, despicable, and twisted, and…
Read MoreEmotional Sobriety – Guest Author Kate Adermann
Emotional sobriety vs. just abstinence is a significant piece to one’s success in “living” their lives in recovery from alcohol or other drug addictions (substance use disorders). As today’s guest author, Kate Adermann, explains, “[t]he only thing worse than being caught up in active addiction is to live an abstinent life without having emotional sobriety.” …
Read MoreGetting Sober While Also Grieving
It’s difficult to imagine trying to get sober from substance use disorder while also grieving the loss of a beloved parent. Grief, in and of itself, can be overwhelming and difficult to move through. But to also be treating a sever substance order at the same — having to turn away from the “thing” that…
Read MoreEmotional Drinking vs Alcoholism – Guest Author Georgia Foster
Emotional drinking vs alcoholism – is there a difference? This is the topic of today’s guest author, Georgia Foster. As Georgia explains, there are many reasons people drink and not all who drink too much are alcoholics, a fact I explain in my post, “Is It Alcoholism? – How Can You Tell?” People who have not crossed…
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