Help for Families | Secondhand Drinking | Codependency
Alcohol Awareness Month – Two Sides to the Drinking Equation – Secondhand Drinking
Alcohol Awareness Month – April, 2014 – raising awareness about both sides of the drinking equation. There are two sides to the drinking equation – the person doing the drinking that causes drinking behaviors and the person on the receiving end of the drinking behaviors – that is, the person experiencing secondhand drinking (SHD). It is…
Read MoreMyths About Addiction – Guest Post, Joey Holub
The following guest post on myths about addiction is by Joey Holub. Joey was the first resident and graduate of Shadow Mountain Recovery. He’s earned a degree from the University of New Mexico and continues his on-going education and recovery, having experienced wilderness programs and long term extended care along the way. Now over 8 years…
Read MoreFrom Depression and Addiction to Survival & Revival – Erika Cormier
Depression and addiction often go hand-in-hand. Today’s guest post by Erika Cormier, author of As the Smoke Clears, a Memoir, is a powerful introduction to the spiral and devastation this combination wrecks in a person’s life and the equally crippling road-block to recovery, “low self-esteem when we enter recovery and an immense burden of shame and…
Read MoreChoosing Not to Drink – Meet Lucy Rocca
Please meet Lucy Rocca who chose to stop drinking in 2011! There is a great deal of confusion, stigma, shame and discrimination surrounding addiction, addiction treatment, addiction recovery and whether a person even has to say they are “In Recovery” or call themselves an alcoholic in order to get sober. Yet those who have the disease of…
Read MoreHelp for Families of Addicts | Alcoholics – Interview with Authors Jeffrey Foote and Nicole Kosanke
Help for families of addicts | alcoholics – specifically – is the focus of the just released book, Beyond Addiction, How Science and Kindness Help People Change. It is estimated over 100 million people are affected by a person’s substance abuse problem – 100 million! That is roughly one-third of the American population. And yet, a family…
Read MoreBetrayal – An Assault on One’s Ability to Trust
Betrayal comes in many forms and is certainly a huge part of the relationship dynamics in families with untreated addiction or substance abuse, as family members jockey to accommodate, forgive, deflect or disbelieve the substance misuser’s promises to stop or cut down. In the following guest post, Darlene Lancer, JD, MFT, and author of Codependency…
Read MoreAlcohol Screening and Brief Counseling – Helps Screen Alcohol Misuse & Secondhand Drinking
It’s with great excitement that I announce and share the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 2014 Alcohol Screening and Brief Counseling guidelines, along with NIAAA’s (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) Single Question Screen. I’m particularly excited about how easily these can be used by health care professionals to assess and help both “sides” of…
Read MoreTreating the Brain for Addiction and Secondhand Drinking Recovery
Many readers would be a bit surprised to realize the smartphone wasn’t introduced until 2007 or that Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram and YouTube have all been introduced since 2004. In fact, we’ve seen a veritable explosion in social networking opportunities this past decade – all possible thanks to new technologies, brilliant minds and funding…
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