7 Ways To Get Over Unloving Relationships
It’s crucial to keep ourselves safe when it comes to matters of the heart, especially when you’re in recovery. Loving relationships have the capacity to bring...
family relationships
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Hope For Healing Codependency
Healing codependency takes time to develop roots just like plants. Codependency doesn’t exist only in families where there is substance use disorder. This unhealthy conditioning...
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9 Tips For Family Addiction
Family addiction is complicated, and it isn’t isolated to one person who may be using. Addiction is passed on through generations and everybody is affected. Intergenerational...
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Forgiving Without An Apology
Approximately 90% of the time, the people who hurt us will never apologize. Let’s say five percent of the time, they do apologize, but it’s...
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When A Grandchild Lives With A Substance Abuser –
From Susan Adcox@ Very Well Mind: When a parent of a grandchild abuses drugs or alcohol, grandparents are put in a terrible position. Of course,...
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5 Characteristics of Healthy Families
We so often read about dysfunctional families that we may believe that there is no such thing as healthy families. But healthy families aren’t a...
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Holiday Family Resentments –
Family resentments become more pronounced on the holidays, causing awkwardness and pain to everyone. Avid readers of advice columns know that pretty much everybody has...
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Holiday Expectations
Reach Out Recovery Exclusive by Merle Honsa: Holiday expectations can break your heart. As the youngest of four children I was automatically labeled “The Baby”...
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Heave Ho To Back-To-School Co-dependency
Watch out for the teacher’s pet of co-dependency this season. Why now? Sending kids off to face another year of bullying classmates and challenging teachers...
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William White’s 12 Point Addiction Solution
An addiction solution is possible with some changes in the way we deal with the disease. Addiction, now defined as a chronic, relapsing brain disease,...
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10 Signs Of Dysfunctional Families
Much has been written about dysfunctional families. At times it may seem that every family has its unhealthy elements. To understand what is actually family...
