Author: Lindsey Glass

Lindsey Glass is the co-founder of Reach Out Recovery. Her 2016 ASAM Media Award winning documentary, The Secret World Of Recovery, has helped to lift the stigma from addiction and recovery and is used in recovery programs nationwide to show what life is like on the other side of addiction. Lindsey's teen prevention documentary, The Silent Majority, was distributed to PBS stations nationwide by American Public Television in 2014-15. Lindsey has written dozens of popular articles on recovery. She is a recovery advocate and frequent keynote speaker. Lindsey is the author of 100 Tips for Growing Up, My 20 Years of Recovery, 2019. Before focusing on recovery, Lindsey was a TV and screenwriter. She has worked in publishing, web development, and marketing.

Family Reconciliation Requires These Three Things

Most people want family reconciliation. Far fewer are prepared for what it actually takes. Here’s an honest look at the three commitments that make it real. Family reconciliation after family estrangement is one of the most talked-about goals in recovery — and one of the least understood. People say they want it and they mean […]

Don’t Be Your Daughter’s Best Friend

How Healthy Boundaries Actually Bring You Closer The relationship you’ve been longing for isn’t built on being everything to each other. It’s built on knowing where you each begin and end and that is not being your daughter’s best friend. Maybe you’ve always wanted to be your daughter’s best friend, or the mom your daughter […]

Recovery Burnout: When Recovery Itself Is Exhausting

You’re doing the work. So why does healing feel so hard right now? You May Have Recovery Burnout Meet recovery burnout. You’ve been going to therapy. Attending your meetings. Journaling, meditating, doing all the things you’re “supposed” to do. And yet, somewhere along the way, you started dreading the very routines that were supposed to […]

What To Say When Your Daughter’s Struggling

What To Say When Your Daughter’s Struggling(and What Not to) If your daughter’s struggling, you are not alone. You’ve probably replayed the moment a hundred times. Maybe she came to you after dinner, voice quiet. Maybe it was a text you weren’t expecting. Maybe she broke down in the car. However it happened, your daughter […]

What Is The Vagus Nerve

The Vagus Nerve Is Having a Moment — But Does It Actually Work for Anxiety? If you’ve spent any time on wellness social media accounts lately, you’ve almost certainly seen someone clipping a little device to their ear, humming in a low tone, or doing elaborate breathing exercises — all in the name of “stimulating […]

The Loneliness Epidemic in 2026

The Loneliness Epidemic: Why So Many of Us Feel Invisible — And What Actually Helps You can have 800 friends on Facebook, a full work calendar, and a partner sleeping next to you — and still feel completely alone. That gap between the life that looks connected and the life that feels connected is at […]