Mental Health, Addiction And Scientifically-Proven Holistic Remedies
Why is it that some people can have a drink or two and walk away while others just can’t seem to get their fill? Is there a reason why some are...
COMMUNITY-BASED RELAPSE PREVENTION An Addiction Recovery Movement of the Future
Relapse is the single most challenging issue facing clinicians working in the field of addiction. Numerous relapse prevention strategies have been developed to mitigate this propensity for relapse. Despite these efforts,...
CODEPENDENCY: IT MAY NOT BE WHAT YOU THINK (PART II)
Healing from codependency is a process that takes practicing new behaviors. In this month’s article, Part II of “Codependency: It May Not Be What You Think,” I’m sharing some of the...
Facing Down Co-Dependence: Five Steps To Emotional Freedom
Life in the Altman family revolved around taking care of my father and brother. Ever since my first exposure to my alcoholic father, I assumed the roles of caretaker and lost...
RECOGNIZING THE CHOICE OF RELAPSE PREVENTION
Many have heard the time-worn expression, “relapse is the rule and not the exception.” Relapse is always lurking somewhere. It is only as close as the next drink or that next...
LIVING BEYOND
PREVENTION STARTS WITH BEING INFORMED, EDUCATED AND SUPPORTIVE
“Prevention is all about persuasion.”
~ Theodore Caputi
For many parents, a child’s return to school may be met with a bag of mixed emotions, reservations...
On The Ledge: Surviving Every Parent’s Worst Nightmare
Why am I writing about this issue? It’s so hard to lose a loved one, but the loss of a loved one due to suicide is perhaps the most unbearable loss...
LIVING BEYOND – THE HIDDEN SADNESS BEHIND THE SMILE
We are all too familiar with the many challenges that come with living life. Life has its ups and-downs. You can be certain that life will inevitably present a host of...
Defining Addiction
This is a typical problem of addiction; this problem is how it is hidden from the people that love and care about you. However, there are signs that scream addiction and...
LIVING BEYOND: CHRONIC PAIN AND ADDICTION
“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.”...
