Help for Families | Secondhand Drinking | Codependency
Families Need Recovery From Addiction, Too
Families need recovery from addiction, too. Addiction is a family disease. The following is a guest post by Ian Koch, MS, LADC, CAS and Operations Manager of North East Addiction Consultants, established to help families of drug addicts and alcoholics guide their loved one into recovery. Though they specialize in the northeast, their network spreads…
Read MoreFinancial Peace of Mind: A Shortcut
Financial peace of mind – often finances are a wreck in a family where there has been active, untreated substance abuse or addiction. Sharon O’Day shares steps for reaching financial peace of mind. The following is a guest post by Sharon O’Day. Sharon is a tell-it-like-it-is money expert with a successful career in global finance…
Read MoreDo You Love Enough for Tough Love?
Tough love – do you love enough to give it? The following is a guest post by Carolyn Hughes, a freelance writer with special interest in alcohol issues. Carolyn is currently writing The Hurt Healer, a novel based on her own experiences of abuse and alcoholism, and lives in Northern Ireland with her husband and…
Read MoreDrinking – How Much is Too Much?
Drinking alcohol – how much is too much and how do you really know? Do you wonder why eating a big meal doesn’t keep you from getting drunk? Do you believe coffee will sober a friend up? Do you wonder why some can drink far more than others and still not seem drunk? Do you…
Read MoreAddiction – Understanding the Illness
Addiction is often a misunderstood disease which can also make treatment difficult. The following is a guest post by Ian Koch, MS, LADC, and Operations Manager of North East Addiction Consultants, established to help families of drug addicts and alcoholics guide their loved one into recovery. Though they specialize in the northeast, their network spreads across the…
Read MoreThe Brain Can Heal
The brain is an amazing organ. Not only does it control everything we think, feel, say and do, but it can heal if damaged by addiction, substance abuse, PTSD, stress, anxiety and the like. This interview is marvelous and shows how the brain can heal — even from things as serious as stroke. It is…
Read MoreAbout Letting Go…
Letting go, as the saying goes, is one of the most difficult things to do, I find. So I am always looking for suggestions on how to do this and recently read an interesting approach in Jack Kornfield’s latest book, Bringing Home the Dharma. Quoting from pages 80-81 of his book, Bringing Home the Dharma: …”1. When…
Read MoreScreening for Underage Drinking
Underage drinking — is a screening really necessary? And what could it tell you? 1 in 3 children starts drinking by the end of 8th grade … and of them, half report having been drunk. NIAAA This is the opening quote in the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s (NIAAA)’s recently released alcohol screening tool…
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