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.
Arguing with a narcissist is a recipe for frustration Arguing with a narcissist will get you nowhere. We’ve had plenty of experiences with narcissists over the years, so we know all too well what it sounds like to find yourself up against an arguing narcissist. In order to prevent this situation, because you will never […]
Want To Come Alive? Ikigai Means To Follow Your Bliss What does it mean to follow your bliss? Ikigai is the Japanese way to find meaning in your life. Joseph Campbell, who was my professor in college, used to tell us to follow your bliss. The whole idea was lost on me all those years […]
Do You Wonder What To Say When Someone’s Upset What to say when someone’s upset is not what you think, and your kindness may not be appreciated. Have you ever offered help when someone’s upset and irritated them? What is help anyway? I admit that I don’t want people to tell me what to think […]
Positive Affirmations Are A Natural Way To Boost Mood And Self Esteem You may think positive affirmations are silly, but they are not. Positive affirmations can change the way you think, obviously; but they can also change the course of your life. You’ve heard of the law of attraction, right? It means you get what […]
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 […]
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