How to Talk About Alcoholism To Your Kids
Alcoholism may be a scary thing to talk about to your children because you are afraid if you give them information about why people drink, they will want to do it themselves. The truth is [...]
What Should I Do If My Family Has a Difference of Opinion?
It can be hard to find common ground with your family sometimes. Your parents are from one generation and you are from another so maybe your opinions are more with today’s time than your parents. [...]
How to Make a Connection with Your Stepchildren
It can be hard at first to establish a relationship with you and your stepchildren. Based on fairy tales, it is already an assumption for children to feel that their new stepparent will be a [...]
What Can I Learn From My Parents?
Addiction can drive a wedge between ourselves and our parents. Recovery helps us to heal our relationship with our parents as we learn how to learn from them and allow them to parent us. Not [...]
How Do I Let Go of the Story of My Past When My Family and Friends are Still Angry?
When you’re in recovery following an addiction to drugs or alcohol, in order to move forward with your life in a honest, healthy way, you have to learn to let go of your past. All [...]
How Do You Tell a Loved One it’s Time to Seek Help?
When a family member or friend is struggling with an addiction to drugs or alcohol, it can be difficult to see them heading down a dark path. Knowing when it’s time to step in and [...]
8 Ways the Family Can Heal During Treatment
A person addicted to drugs and alcohol does not suffer alone. Family members, nuclear or extended, are impacted by their loved one's addiction. All substances affect people differently and everyone needs time to heal. The [...]
The Best Tools Family Need for Supporting a Loved One in Recovery
You are elated! Your loved one is in treatment and beginning to recover, but the journey is far from over. Recovery is a lifelong journey, and you will need the best tools for supporting their [...]
What to do When Your Spouse Needs to go to Treatment
Some people will not visit a doctor unless they lose a limb or are doubled over in pain. Even if they are doubled over it can still be difficult to get them to the hospital. [...]
Will I Be Able to Help Everyone After I Graduate Treatment?
Once you get home from treatment, you may feel like it's your responsibility to help everyone else with their problems. While this is a common sentiment, it just isn't true and can even be dangerous. [...]