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.
Mass Shooting Trauma Affects Teen Mental Health What Can We Do Can we protect schools and teen mental health from mass shooting by adding guards and fences? Do you really think that making schools like prisons will reduce the trauma and fear teachers and teens are experiencing right now? When schools look and feel like […]
Knowing how gaslighting works and can be used in relationships helps keep you safe It may not seem like anyone is gaslighting you, but gaslighting can come in different forms. Sometimes those forms are sneakier than we think they can be. Gaslighting is manipulation like when someone, or something, attempts to change reality by presenting […]
It may not always seem easy but detachment empowers Trust, us when we say we know detaching from people you care about can be hard. Detachment empowers for sure, but it isn’t always simple to get there. You see , in recovery we talk about letting go and detaching, but we don’t often add that […]
Getting What You Want Means Working For It And Believing Let’s begin with the reality that getting what you want requires more than wishing, hoping, and praying. People say that recovery operates by some universal law. Just when you become ready for that something you desperately need, it shows up. Readiness and being able to […]
You may not realize but moods have habits Have you ever noticed that you have mood habits? When you wake up, you have certain feelings that may repeat themselves through the day? Sometimes you’re happy and serene. Or you may be agitated from the get-go. Then there are those triggers of past trauma that immediately […]
When You Recognize Gaslighting You Can Begin to Deal With It It’s all around us, but can you recognize gaslighting when you see it in your friends and family? Gaslighting “is a manipulative form of communication where a power differential exists,” said Angela Corbo, an associate professor and chair of communication studies at Widener University in […]
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