What Is Enmeshment?
Enmeshment is a blurring of the boundaries between people. How the other person feels affects you intensely. Enmeshment is one-way -- your thoughts, f…
Category: CYCLE OF USE – triggers to use
Treat the Family, Improve the Outcome
The most effective way to help someone with substance use disorder? Helping the family. Learn to become a transformation agent.
Homelessness: A Complicated Problem
Offer pressure-free resources when your loved one chooses them, but know: having a loved one without a home is a triggering experience.
Triggers: What Are They, and How Do You Handle Them?
Triggers – when you’re pulled into old reactions – happen. Learn to repair yourself, stopping the cycle to enable healing.
Releasing Trauma
Our hosts discuss the trauma that can affect families and loved ones, and how to release it and learn new habits over time.
Everything Feels So Hopeful. When Will the Other Shoe Drop?
After a rough patch, your Loved One seems stronger and more hopeful: it’s all about change talk and new beginnings, finally! Whether it’s …
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…
Podcast #12—Trigger Happy
Laurie and Annie explore what it means to be triggered. Annie takes to the public to poll people about being triggered. Both give examples and explana…
Finding Gratitude in the Shadows
How well can you separate the illness of addiction from the person you love? Can you find the light of their humanity when their shadow side is starin…
Trigger Happy
One thing we can count on in life is this: triggers will always present themselves. Having a planned response will minimize regret over mishandling th…
