Just for Today
Discover the powerful phrase kyo dake wa . Here are some simple instructions to creating a mantra, just for today.
Author: isabel
Dual Diagnosis: When It Seems Like It Will Never End
There’s no putting aside the pain, exhaustion, and disappointments that go on, sometimes for years – even decades – when loved ones …
Podcast #15—Silver Linings—A Whole New Playbook
(46 min) Can good possibly come in the midst of terrible crisis, chaos and despair? While Annie and Laurie agree that they would wish a Loved One…
Podcast #46—Feeling Sorry: Where Does It Lead? Can It Be Useful?
(34:44) When a Loved One suffers from addiction, part of the complicated web of emotions we experience involves feeling sorry for them. A Loved One st…
It’s Not Tough Love, But It’s Still Tough!
Editor Isabel Cooney realized that there was a striking parallel between the challenges of the CRAFT method and those of getting your baby to sle…
Podcast #37— SPECIAL HOLIDAY PODCAST: When Holidays Are a Trigger
(40:59) Regardless the holidays or traditions you observe, this time of year can be trying, triggering and even traumatic. In this special holid…
A Trophic Cascade in Yellowstone…and At Your House?
Over 40 million people have watched this 4-minute video. We invite you to take this story as a poignant example of how making one small change ca…
fears & vulnerability
Accepting vulnerability and admitting our fears ... Asking for help ... Letting someone hold us in our darkest moments ... Stefan Weiner's so…
To the Voice in Your Head that Says Otherwise
Self-Care has been on my mind, not just because it's an important focus here for Allies in Recovery families. But also because I tend to…
Will You Hug Me?
Watch this young Arab-American opera singer offer his prayer and vulnerability to total strangers and see what happens. A "community of caring&qu…