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There comes a point when that big, fat elephant in the room needs to be booted out.  The family systems disease of substance use disorder is riddled with denial.  And that denial often causes the person identified as “the addict”...

Powerlessness.  Definitely a lesson we all have been well schooled in during the last 11 months.  This lack of control created by the pandemic has caused fear and anxiety to get waaaaay too much of a stronghold everywhere. The grip of...

Roller skating blindfolded on a floor full of marbles. That’s how one relative described living in a family system dealing with an ongoing addiction circumstance.  And that sense of being precariously off -balance and about to crash is not the sole realm...

Drama. Drama. Drama. No one wants a life that feels like a reality TV show gone sideways. But the reality is that life can feel like one endless binge-watch of an off- the- rails reality TV show when you are dealing with...