Help for Families | Secondhand Drinking | Codependency
Healing a Broken Heart | Carolyn Hughes
When your heart is broken — whether it’s over the death of a loved one, a failed relationship, an abusive partner, or a family member’s substance misuse — your depths of sadness and despair, perhaps even anger, and of course, hurt, often overshadow any thoughts of hope, let alone possibilities of actually healing your broken…
Read MoreChildren of Alcoholics Need Our Help
Unless you’ve been a child in a home with untreated, unhealthily discussed alcohol (or drug) misuse or addiction, it’s difficult to image what it’s like to be a child in such a home. Devastating. Scary. Shame-filled. Life-robbing. Lonely. Isolating. It’s a set-up for a “rest of your life” that NONE of us would ever wish…
Read MoreAddiction is a Treatable Brain Disease – Really!
The Senate’s unanimous confirmation of Michael Botticelli as the Director of the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy is a milestone to celebrate. Whether you personally struggle with the disease of addiction or you are a family member trying to help a loved one who is, Mr. Botticelli’s appointment is proof positive that addiction is a…
Read MoreWhen Caring Too Much is Bad | Darlene Lancer
Caring too much? Is it even possible when worried about a loved one’s drinking or drug use and what that loved one is doing to themselves and others? 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…
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…
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