The truth is hard to deal with sometimes – especially when it’s our own. When the truth is messy, painful, or sad, it makes sense that we try to avoid it. Truth avoidance is like pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock. That blaring alarm is so loud and jarring, we just want it […]
It’s time to take a look at our growing library of books about addiction and recovery. Once again, we reached out to folks in various stages of their own healing journeys and asked what books they enjoyed, found comfort in, laughed with, cried over, and learned from. Today, we have 4 titles from the list […]
Getting Help Welcome back to our 3-part series about the family in addiction and recovery. In our first post, we explored some ways that addiction is damaging to family members and the family unit as a whole. Then we looked at Karpman’s Triangle to identify and explore some habitual patterns that can get in the […]
Karpman’s Triangle Welcome back to our 3-part series about the family in addiction and recovery. In our last post, we explored some ways that addiction is damaging to family members and the family unit as a whole. Today, we’re going to look at some habitual patterns that can get in the way of a sustained […]
Often in dealing with addiction many people have a misconception of the severity of the disease, and what it takes to recover from it. Before being able to understand the importance of continuing care compared to aftercare when it comes to the successful treatment of addiction it is vital to understand the acuteness of addiction. […]
There is a crisis going on in the United States. We’re not talking about COVID-19 either, though the pandemic has certainly played a part. The crisis that we’re speaking of here is this: According to provisional data published by the CDC, 100,306 people died from drug overdoses in the months between April 2020 and April 2021. […]
Nearly 15 million American adults have Social Anxiety. If you’re one of them, you know what a challenge it can be. It’s hard to enjoy life when you feel nervous, anxious, or panicked in social situations. If you’ve suffered from Social Anxiety for some time, you’ve probably tried lots of different things. You may […]
Self-care is important. Anybody in the mental health field will tell you that. Practicing good self-care is a part of any healing or recovery journey, but how do you know how to practice good self-care if you’ve spent a lifetime either practicing really bad self-care or no self-care at all? That’s what this post is […]
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, DBT was developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Dr. Linehan developed DBT in response to the challenges she encountered working with people who were chronically suicidal. Her primary goal was to help people develop “a life worth living.” Behavioral therapies were common in the 1970s, and […]
Trauma-Informed Care There was a time when trauma was seen as something experienced by relatively few people, and events and circumstances that are now understood as harmful and traumatic were even seen as preventive. Incest is an example. According to Bessel van der Kolk, in his book The Body Keeps the Score (2014), incest between […]
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