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…
Category: Member Blogs
He’s Backsliding and Far Away – Should I Fly Down?
This member lives far from her son who struggles with alcohol use. A recent breakup is causing him to backslide after some real progress. Mom wonders …
Relapse or No Relapse? How Can I Proceed CRAFTily?
Allies member Milliemouse is keeping a close watch on her son's finances as he navigates early recovery. There seem to have been some slip-ups of …
I Wish I Could Hire Someone to Help Her Handle Life
Early recovery can feel just as shaky, chaotic and challenge-filled as life before recovery. Help4t's daughter is struggling to keep up with …
He Won’t Respect Any of Our Boundaries
Tuesday42 needs better strategies for addressing her boyfriend's son's chronic use and troubling behavior in their house. Dominique Simon…
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…
She Went to Court for a DUI
Kate44 reaches out for advice about whether or not to pay her Loved One's rent. Read on for Dominique Simon-Levine's suggestions and…
I Feel Like I’m Drowning…Will I Live Through this?
When I continue struggling and fighting the circumstances that I have done all I possibly can to change or improve, I sink further into them. Continui…
Where Do You Draw the Line?
The way you relate to your Loved One is full of patterns. Though it's not a quick or easy process, Dominique Simon-Levine suggests that&…