Grief Revisited: Tips For Growing Past Sadness

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Grief Revisited: An Opportunity For Growth Grief revisited comes from  insights shared by Dr. Katie Eastman, a new contributor to Reach Out Recovery. Dr. Katie is a renown grief therapist and coach who recently worked with me and my daughter and co author, Lindsey, on some of our own issues with grieving. In only two […]

Tips For Holidays When Your Family Hates You

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Don’t Fear The Holidays When Your Family Hates You This is more common than you think and know that you are not alone. Take it from me, who has a multitude of experience on this subject, that you can be OK on the holidays no matter what your status is with your family. See, I […]

Tips To Stay Sane On The Holidays

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A Lesson In How To Stay Sane On The Holidays Learning to stay sane on the holidays is an art. That is because a million little things can happen around the holidays that are sure to throw any stable person into a spiral of some kind of another. Family can be difficult, sometimes impossible and […]

Tips To Empower Your Deeply Feeling Child

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How To Understand Your Deeply Feeling Child I was a deeply feeling child who was told my feelings were wrong. All of them. That made me think I had a fatal flaw. It didn’t go away with age. I became deeply feeling adult, and now I’m a deeply feeling senior. Throughout my life many people […]

Sibling Estrangement: When To Let Go

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Sibling Estrangement Once Broke My Heart Sibling estrangement is a lasting sorrow whether you feel it every day or rarely think about it. Being separated forever from those you grew up and with whom you share memories can be a heavy burden of feeling rejected and left out, or a lesson in healthy letting go. […]

5 Tips To Create The Recovery Lifestyle

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 The Recovery Lifestyle Is The Missing Piece If you are in recovery from anything and you are not loving your life, you may want to look at that. I’m not saying anyone’s life is, or should be, perfect all the time. But, feeling joy, satisfaction, even love, are the things we work on our recovery for […]