Do you think of your time is valuable? In fact, your time is your most valuable asset. That’s why so many people want it. Setting boundaries may be difficult when relationships are already long established. […]

How to feel gratitude when you’re suffering or grieving is a challenge millions of people face every day. How can you feel grateful when things are so bad? In families where there is substance or alcohol use […]

Healthy boundaries help you know who you are and what you want. Is that a surprising idea? Why do we need boundaries, anyway? Those who feel secure and have healthy self esteem know what they want and can […]

You may think domestic violence is limited to either physical abuse or bullying, but abuse is all about gaining and keeping power. The cycle of violence can continue to repeat itself and the abuse often w […]

Hurt feelings in a loved one can make you feel so bad. Is it your fault when someone takes everything you say the wrong way? Excessive sensitivity is way up there in the relationship manipulation department. […]

Unloved daughter is a harsh idea to digest and worse, to live with. Can we ever get over feeling like an unloved daughter? But first, what does the term mean? I’ve thought about this a lot over the years […]

The meme above shows some mind games that make you feel awful. Mind games may not seem to be a pattern in a loved one or friend. The person who makes you feel awful may claim to be a perfectionist, or a super […]

Damages of a narcissist go deeper than the things you can’t do with them. Narcissists are not just selfish people. Because they don’t care about anything or anybody but themselves, their sole purpose with […]

Detachment is an opportunity for growth

Detachment is an opportunity for growth for so many reasons, even though at times it may seem downright cruel to turn away from helping. If it’s easy for me to wash the […]

Family can be your deepest heartach

Family can be your deepest heartache because it’s not supposed to be that way. We just got a note from a reader who said his sister was telling lies about him and wanted to […]

An unsafe environment to disagree is anywhere you can’t be your true self. It’s a fact that disagreeing with your boss is not a good idea when he likes things done his/her own way. You may not want to […]

Recover The You That Left With Them

After grief recover yourself and still keep your loved one alive

Loss of a loved one, especially to drugs or alcohol leaves a special kind of grief. There is stigma […]

Understand Why I Am Who I Am

Knowing without pity is best outcome for sharing your story. We all so want to be understood without judgement. People coping with mental illness, are in recovery from substance or […]

We talk about narcissism and gaslighting all the time, so when we found this clip, we knew it had to be shared. Perhaps you have experience with arguing with a narcissistic husband or wife. Maybe you already know […]

I never thought about resentments before addiction came into my life. That doesn’t mean I didn’t have painful feelings about a variety of family issues over the years. But resentment, as the driving motivation for […]

Would you love to restore precious relationships that have been destroyed by addiction? So did I. In the high school years of my loved one’s substance use, all I wanted was for it to stop. I did what many p […]

Destructive conditioning, on many levels, is making it impossible to halt the addiction epidemic. Even though we have Covid 19 as a new health threat to the nation, the addiction epidemic is still with us, […]

Ghosting is shunning taken to a whole new level in the digital age. Isolating and ignoring people has been used since forever by regimes and religious groups use to control the beliefs and behavior of its members. […]

3 Day Detox.  What is it and why now? Why indeed. This is the highest calorie consumption time of the year. It doesn’t just start with Thanksgiving. It starts with Halloween and everything falls apart after that. […]

Recovery coloring book for kids? It’s a first. Every child experiencing trauma needs a special vocabulary and story for comfort. This engaging new coloring book was designed to reassure and empower children with […]