Author: Leslie Glass

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.

Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself

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Feeling Sorry For Yourself Doesn’t Help Feeling sorry for yourself can lead to all kinds of woes. It can lead to substance use and relationship difficulties. In short, it becomes a bad habit you might want to break. When I was growing up my father kept a ledger in his head of what I cost: […]

Enabling Adult Children Who Only Want Money

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Enabling Adult Children Drove Me Crazy For Years This is the time of the year when enabling adult children can be the most difficult for parents. Your children can guilt you over grandchildren’s needs and not having enough funds to support them. They can keep grandchildren from you and refuse to be with you over […]

Healing From Codependency Post Covid

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Healing from codependency offers a brand new opportunity even after the worst of Covid 19 is past. All the issues with new flus and traveling and over helping others are still with us. But just because the major danger is over, we can still use our tools to make a change in our codependent relationships. […]

In The Rooms Celebrates 15th Anniversary

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Meet Our Friends At In The Rooms And Join Their Community In The Rooms Founders Ron Tannebaum and Ken Pomerance Celebrate 14 Years In The Rooms is your go-to resource for Online meetings. 12 Step programs are almost 100 years old and have helped millions of people, but something magical happened 14 years ago. Two […]

Learn To Recognize The Effects of Depression in Your Body

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Effects Of Depression On Your Body Isn’t In Your Head Effects of depression are not just your mood and energy level.  It’s easy to think that depression is a mental illness so it only affects our heads, right? But, that’s not all depression does to us. It can have serious effects on our bodies as […]