Art Therapy A Must For Addiction Recovery
Art Therapy’s Role In Addiction Recovery Art therapy is transformative: it promotes self-discovery. Recovery from addiction is a journey of transformation. It’s not just about quitting a substance—it’s about reconnecting with who you are beneath the pain, habits, and coping mechanisms. For many people, the road to healing includes more than therapy or group meetings. […]
Family Patterns: Tense Vs. Toxic
Family Patterns: Normal Tension Or Truly Toxic Family patterns in arguing can be the expression of normal tensions and frustrations, or toxic slugfests. Every family has moments of frustration, slammed doors, and words we wish we could take back. That’s normal. But when tension in your family goes beyond occasional disagreements and turns into repeated […]
7 Red Flags Of Parent Enmeshment
Red Flags Of Parent Enmeshment: Have You Launched Yet What are the red flags of parent enmeshment when you’re all grown up? Serious question, do you know the red flags that you haven’t emotionally launched from your parents? Growing up is supposed to mean independence, but for many of us, myself included, adulthood came with […]
Finding Your Voice After Toxic Parents
Finding Your Voice After Toxic Parents Is Possible And Necessary Finding your voice after toxic parents can feel nearly impossible when you’ve grown up in a household where speaking up wasn’t safe, respected, or even allowed. Toxic or dysfunctional parents—whether they were controlling, emotionally unavailable, or caught in cycles of addiction—can leave lasting imprints on […]
Parenting Addicts Worksheet
Parenting Addicts Worksheet Help With Tough Questions Parenting addicts is a tough road to navigate with many ups-and-downs. In order to help gather your thoughts, we created this parenting addicts worksheet. Take a few minutes to answer these questions and center your thoughts. Parenting Addicts Worksheet 1. When Parents Don’t Agree Prompt: Write down one […]
Helping Versus Enabling Worksheet
Helping Versus Enabling – Do You Know The Difference? Helping versus enabling is a question all parents have to ask themselves. Think you’re helping and getting bad results? You may be enabling. When the family situation has become dysfunctional, for any reason, and there’s no training in healthy family dynamics, it’s easy to mistake enabling […]