Leslie Glass became a recovery advocate and co-founder of Reach Out Recovery in 2011, encouraged by her daughter Lindsey who had struggled with substances as a teen and young adult. Learning how to manage the family disease of addiction with no roadmap to follow inspired the mother and daughter to create Reach Out Recovery's website to help others experiencing the same life-threatening problems. Together they produced the the 2016 ASAM Media Award winning documentary, The Secret World of Recovery, and the teen prevention documentary, The Silent Majority, distributed by American Public Television. In her career, Leslie has worked in advertising, publishing, and magazines as a writer of both fiction and non fiction. She is the author of 9 bestselling crime novels, featuring NYPD Dt.Sgt. April Woo. Leslie has has served as a Public Member of the Middle States Commission of Higher Education and as a Trustee of the New York City Police Foundation. For from 1990 to 2017, Leslie was the Trustee of the Leslie Glass Foundation. Leslie is a proud member of Rotary International.
4 Hacks To Be Happy Anywhere Anytime Hacks to be happy are what we all need right now. Did you know there are ways to get and stay happy, no matter what’s happening in your life? Really. Even dealing with early recovery, ongoing recovery, job instability, political instability, and anything else that’s scary in the […]
Myths About Addiction The Stigma Must End Myths about addiction include the fact that even the names for the disease have changed. You may not even know what you have when your diagnosis is OUD. It’s Opioid Use Disorder. But it’s still addiction. The tragic fact is that in America addiction is like having Covid […]
Addiction Recovery Is Not A Stright Path But There Can Be A Timeline Addiction, now called Substance, Alcohol or Behavior Use Disorder is confusing. Here’s some of what we know. 30 years of research shows there are many paths to recovery, as cited in the Surgeon General’s 2016 Report on Addiction. But there are some […]
In Recovery The Butterfly Shows Us How To Transform And End Manipulation The butterfly is the symbol of recovery for a great reason. The butterfly changes form several times. In its last transformation, it flies away. And you can do that, too, when you have toxic or damaging relationships. You can fly away and detach […]
Gaslighting And Ghosting Are Destructive And Real The term gaslighting, of course, comes from a mid-century movie in which a husband tried to kill his wife by altering her reality and making her think she was crazy. Ghosting is a new term and began to describe the practice of ending a personal relationship with someone […]
Start A Conversation With Someone To Show You Care Start a conversation. It’s as easy as that to support people when they’re sad, depressed, or grieving. What does support really look like? It depends. We all know people who will vent endlessly about all their grievances and pain. Listening for hours to people who sap […]
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