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A family addiction crisis can feel like you are trying to survive a Category 5 hurricane. The high, deadly winds of a loved one’s substance- fueled choices are whipping around the atmosphere at more than 100- miles- an- hour....

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...

August 31. A key date in the recovery community as it marks International Overdose Awareness Day.  Let’s be honest. It’s a date we all want to eradicate as necessary to be set aside on our calendar.  But for far, far...

The worry for the well- being of family members caught in the midst of an addiction crisis can trap you like an insect in a spider’s web.  This worry is not confined to the person identified as the addict . Substance...

The power of one. It is really easy to lose sight of that awesome power in our daily lives with the pandemic and the totality of its global fallout raging around us. But over these (way too long) months since March,...