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.

5 Tips To Cope With Scary News

Managing Scary News If You’re An Empath If it feels to you as if the scary news overwhelming, it may hurt to wake up in the morning. What can you do; how can you stay optimistic? How to drown out the mean and nasty? What can you do about your feelings grief when so many […]

Dear Hopeless

Let’s Start With Hopeless Isn’t Helpless I’ve been hopeless many times around many things, so I’m qualified for this one. Someone wrote to us from our newsletter and asked for some advice. They feel hopeless about a painful and tragic family situation and wanted some thoughts on how to feel better. Let’s start with it’s […]

How Mother Daughter Trauma Sabotages Your Relationships

Love, But Never Enough: How Unhealed Mother Daughter Trauma Sabotages Adult Relationships I had mother daughter trauma and that’s why I write about it. For me, my mother daughter trauma seeped into my entire life influencing all my relationships for the worse. Here’s why… The mother-daughter bond is our first blueprint for love. When that […]

The Caregiving Daughter: From Duty to Burnout

The Silent Burnout of The Caregiving Daughter: When Caretaking Becomes a Life Sentence Are you a caregiving daughter? If you are one, you know it. I am one and at times it’s dominated and become toxic for me. That’s why I encourage other women who find themselves in this role to make sure they are […]

The Cost Of Growing Up Unseen

Invisible Daughters: The Long-Term Cost of Growing Up Unseen and Unheard Have you ever heard of growing up unseen? Does it hit a chord when you hear it? Every child longs for one thing above all else: to be seen and heard. For daughters, a mother’s recognition can be the foundation of self-worth, identity, and […]

The Body Remembers The Trauma

The Body Remembers: Physical Illnesses Tied to Unresolved Mother-Daughter Conflict Trust me when I say, the body remembers what happened in the past whether you want it to or not. I needed spinal surgery when I was 33. I do have degenerative disc disease but I also held a lot of trauma in my body, […]