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I have a hard time with perspective. I can lose it very easily. And, at the risk of telling on myself, I’m no picnic to be with when my perspective is thrown off. Just ask my family. Lack of sleep,...

“It was all too much. I could not take one more thing going wrong. My prayers seemed to bounce off some Teflon ceiling in heaven and crash-land on Earth. I asked God to give my son a moment of...

Here’s some positive in the midst of a year with challenges that seem to stack up like Jenga game pieces.

Gradually, but very steadily, I did a 180 with my outlook about the years my family struggled with substance use disorder.  I went from being broken to embracing the power of being a wounded healer. For more than a...

It took me a long time to understand that addiction is a disease of the family system. While there is the family member identified as the addict, the lives of all the members in a family system are impacted by substance...