Help for Families | Secondhand Drinking | Codependency
Steps to Self-Forgiveness and Overcoming Guilt
Self-forgiveness and overcoming guilt can be life-changing, and for those whose lives have been affected by guilt in the course of their involvement with an addict | alcoholic or as an addict | alcoholic, both can be critical steps in one’s long-term recovery process. To help us understand this concept, as well as essential steps…
Read MoreResentments – a Path to Relapse 4 Addicts | Alcoholics | Family Members
Resentments – you know – those niggling or blaring thoughts that keep running the hamster wheel in our heads, swirling mind chatter about what someone else should or shouldn’t do or has or hasn’t done until they whirlpool in anger, frustration, getting even; until the resentment is the focus of our day and our night…
Read MoreParent Recovery Coach | Cathy Taughinbaugh
You may already know Cathy Taughingbaugh by her blog, TreatmentTalk, but Cathy is also a Recovery Coach – for Parents! I wanted you to know this because going through the early stages of diagnosing, finding appropriate treatment, finding help for self and other family members, planning for a child’s return to the family home or…
Read MoreHelp for Family and Friends of Alcoholics | OARS
Help for the family and friends of alcoholics is as important as help for the person with the chronic, often relapsing brain disease of addiction, of which alcoholism is but one. The following is a guest post by Linda, whose husband is an alcoholic, and whose journey to save her own life led to her…
Read MoreShatter the Shame | Share the Facts
It’s time. We must band together to Shatter the Shame of Addiction, and here’s why… It is estimated that over 23 million Americans struggle with addiction, yet fewer than 10 percent are getting treatment. By comparison, cancer prevalence for all types of cancers [which is the term used by the American Cancer Society to define…
Read MoreThe Shame of Addiction
I saw it again last night as I faced an audience of people in treatment for Substance Use Disorders (SUDs), aka addiction, and their family members, all of whom were present to hear my lecture. I saw the crushing emotional pain that surrounds this family disease on their faces, in their body language, in the way…
Read MoreMothers Who Love an Addict | Alcoholic
Mothers who love an addict | alcoholic have it doubly hard in my opinion. We not only try to help the person with the drinking | drug abuse problem and/or addiction, we try to keep our non-drinking | non-drug abusing children safe in all manner of ways. We don’t want them to know what’s really…
Read MoreSober Conversations | Secondhand Drinking
Secondhand drinking has been an ongoing topic on my blog and in my consulting and presentation work for several years, now. It is a term to describe what happens to family members and friends and the stranger on the street, to the co-workers and fellow students and society at large. It is what happens to…
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