5 Healthy Ways to Handle Tough Holiday Situations
I’ve compiled helpful suggestions and tips for handling this time of year, based on difficult holiday seasons I’ve experienced m…
Author: annieunhooked
I am the daughter as well as the mother of someone who has had struggles with narcotic pain medication following injuries. My son is five years in recovery, my mother is still prescribed these medications and abuses them. Her health, mindset and awareness are failing as a result. Substance abuse has been a part of my life ALL my life. I know the deep despair, confusion, frustration, and terror it causes a family. I also know that with proper care, kind, healthy support, information and effort we CAN recover and rise.
What Does Being “In Denial” Actually Mean?
Accepting something life-shattering is gradual, it's a journey—one that involves grief and soul searching. If it's happening to you…
Am I Enabling Use?
I believed with all my heart that the responsibility of curing him of this disease lay solely upon me and my ability to not enable. I eventu…
Coming Back to Earth
Earthing feels similar to those unexpected moments when you find yourself running through the rain and stop, hold your hands up to the sky and allow y…
Drama, Drama, Drama
Unless you were born and raised alone in the woods with no human interaction, you have at some point in your life experienced drama. I learn…
Anxieties, Worries and Fears, Oh My!
So with some of my close loved ones involved in addiction and high-risk lifestyles, how do I personally cope with the stress so that it does not spira…
Heads Up Information if You’re “New to SUD”
In a recent conversation on the Coming Up for Air podcast, a discussion took place as to what tips parents and loved ones may need when first facing t…
The Silent Treatment
One thing I did not realize as I found my way forward was that in addition to my own emotional suffering from almost losing him, Elliot might be traum…
Now That He’s Sober, I Never Hear From Him
It takes a lot of mental work to get and remain sober and so a recovering loved one may be unintentionally careless with those who support them. If w…
Please Don’t Tell me to Detach!
If you are the bystander watching this brutal disease from the front row, what do you do? Detach from someone you love as they are spiraling? What doe…