After Treatment and Relapses Now She’s in Jail
All of this may make you want to give up on treatment. Please don’t. In one study of treatment, it took 4 treatment episodes on average to get a…
Category: Discussion Blog
The Huge Challenge of the Holidays
As the holidays approach, many families and Loved Ones begin to anticipate complicated feelings and situations. As Thanksgiving approaches, Mostlysunn…
We’re Paying for College While He Parties and Plays Video Games
The question of paying for college is indeed a tricky one. Rewards need to be things that can be taken away quickly if and when you see the perso…
How to Support Our Daughter as She Moves Back into Parenting
You don’t wake up one morning sober and magically know how to parent. Putting down the drink and drug does not provide you with life skills. It …
If Suicide is a Risk, is CRAFT Still Appropriate?
The talk of suicide is indeed very worrisome and can stop families from allowing natural consequences. The fear is that taking away money, or not answ…
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…
Three Loved Ones in Addiction – A Triple Threat
When three Loved Ones in your life struggle with mental illness and addiction what do you do? How do you find a safe place and some peace?
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…
We Don’t Know When My Brother is High
What a shock to learn your brother has been using opioids all this time. Opioid use can be like this. A person can look almost passed out, eyes g…
My Husband is More Angry When He Drinks
Your husband’s anger is its own thing, separate from alcoholism but ignited by the alcohol. The anger makes everything so much harder. He direct…