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...
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How To Talk To Teens About A Parent’s Substance Use
Talking to teens about family substance use is difficult, especially when it is a parent’s. Without the full understanding of what is happening to a...
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Healthy Detachment: Melody Beattie Says Do It With Love
Healthy detachment? It sounds like a recipe for the impossible. We often hear that we need to detach from a dysfunctional family system. But how...
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What Is Enabling
No one sets out to enable addiction. On the contrary, many start out with good intentions. We love the person struggling with addiction, and she’s...
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Substance Abuse Grief Is It Different
Is substance abuse grief different from other kinds of grief? Does grief differ if it’s the death of a child, a breakup of a romantic...
