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...
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Kids And Addiction: What To Tell And When
We often think we need to protect kids and addiction shouldn’t be discussed. We think they’ll be too young or immature to understand this, but...
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5 Characteristics of Healthy Families
We so often read about dysfunctional families that we may believe that there is no such thing as healthy families. But healthy families aren’t a...
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3 Steps To Cut Through Denial And Be Honest
Denial feeds addiction, and everyone in the family is impacted. To truly we recover, everyone in the family has to take an honest look at...
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There Are No Stages For Coping With Grief –
There is a lot of information regarding grief that is inaccurate, especially the five stages of grief developed by Kubler-Ross. While this was an interesting...
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Warning Signs Of Teen Suicide –
Along with teen gun violence, teen suicide is also the news. The numbers of teen deaths are rising, particularly for African Americans and Latinos. The...
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What Leads To Suicide And How You Can Help –
The latest numbers from suicide rates are in, and they are shocking. According to the CDC, 1 person commits suicide every 12 minutes, and for...
