LOVE LETTERS FROM THE CORONAVIRUS QUARANTINE
How to make your down-time meaningful and fulfilling
What if an old fashioned, thoughtful LOVE LETTER changed your life for the better, rekindled the intimacy and connection in one of your relationships,...
RECOVERY IS A FAMILY AFFAIR
“The entire family is in recovery. Every person in this room is in recovery. The sooner you accept this truth and begin to focus on your own growth and recovery process,...
THE CORONAVIRUS DISEASE- COVID-19
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has taken the world by storm. COVID-19 is a member of the coronavirus family, which has never been detected in humans before. There are seven known...
Codependent? Reclaiming Our Losses Step by Step
You may have seen the cartoon of a person reflecting, “Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.” As a codependent, I know that of all the...
Substance Use and Risk-taking Behaviors – What Parents Need to Know
“It could be the ugliest person in the world; someone we wouldn’t think twice about if we were sober, but we’d go to bed with if we were high or intoxicated.”...
THE AMYGDALA – EARLY CHILDHOOD TRAUMA and ADDICTION
Friedrich Nietzsche said “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Trauma consists of reactions to an overwhelming danger or an inescapable chronic threat which, particularly if it...
3 Tips to Help You Experience Joy This Holiday Season
How you can truly enjoy the holiday season despite substance use disorder in the family
Are you sitting on pins and needles wondering which of your...
Saving Your Loved Ones from Addiction By Treating the Disease in the Brain and...
Across America today, families are faced with unparalleled challenges from social media, peer pressure, financial insecurity, health issues, pervasive anxiety and inordinate stress which opens the door to darkness...
THE ELDERLY SUFFER IN SILENCE FROM SUBSTANCE ABUSE
At a recent conference on substance abuse among the elderly, Brenda Iliff, Director of the Hazelden Betty Ford Older Adult Program, reported a precipitous increase in substance abuse among...
SUGAR HIGHS: IS MARIJUANA THE REAL GATE-WAY DRUG?
Our children are dying en masse of opioid overdoses and the federal government is going back in a time machine arguing that marijuana is a gate-way drug. As they...