From Dysfunctional to Functional: Shifting the Family Balance
Shifting the family balance from dysfunctional to functional is a challenge where there is substance or alcohol use. Secrets have to be kept. Crises need...
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5 Factors Predict Teen Addiction
Who get addicted and who doesn’t? Teen addiction is fact of life for 15% of high schoolers, and it’s important to take any teen use...
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How To Break Up With Negative Self Talk –
Self talk is that inner voice that often chatters to us about all types of things. Unfortunately, it is often negative. Negative self talk impairs...
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25 Tips To Help Teens Coping With Grief
Most teens know someone who passed away do to drug or alcohol use. The loss may be the friend, or sibling, who is no longer...
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Hope For Healing Codependency
Healing codependency takes time to develop roots just like plants. Codependency doesn’t exist only in families where there is substance use disorder. This unhealthy conditioning...
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The Difference Between Guilt And Shame
What’s the difference between guilt and shame? Shame lies. Basically, guilt is a healthy feeling and shame is an unhealthy feeling. Let’s take a closer...
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9 Tips For Family Addiction
Family addiction is complicated, and it isn’t isolated to one person who may be using. Addiction is passed on through generations and everybody is affected. Intergenerational...
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What’s In Your Recovery First Aid Kit
Addiction is actually the very opposite of taking care of your needs, so we need many tools in our recovery first aid kit. Self care...
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13 Ways To Tame Chaos and Clutter
We live within a culture of chaos. A 24 hour news cycle flashes before us. Multi-tasking means epic to-do lists with fragments of completion time....
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Are Pain Meds Safe? –
Do you wonder if your pain meds are safe? New research shows that opioids and prescription pain drugs are not the best answer for chronic...
