FAMILIES SPEAK: Handling Hard Feelings
How do you deal with feelings like frustration and fear around your loved one's substance use? Our co-hosts share experiences and tools.
Category: MODULE 7
Partner CRAFT: Early Recovery
What's realistic to expect of our loved ones? What can we do as a family member to support them and to keep ourselves in check?
What About the Fear of Death?
If fear of your loved one’s death colors things, you have to do things differently. CRAFT tools can help you change the dynamic over time.
Finding Our Way Back Home: Ram Dass on Breaking the Cycle of Addiction
A beloved teacher on spiritual practice and the pain that traps us in old patterns
FAMILIES SPEAK: Recovery—Progress, not Perfection
It’s easy to impose expectations, but changing yourself, your expectations and perceptions makes room for your loved one to progress.
The Holidays: Cheer, Challenges, and Strategies
Annie Highwater’s guide to surviving and thriving this season.
Marijuana: Is It a Problem?
Since it has medical uses, the answers lie in good communication, in helping the person understand for themselves whether it's a problem.
CRAFT Basics: What Does “Agency” Mean?
Agency, the sense of self-control, is important to CRAFT. Foster agency in others by offering positivity, gaining more agency of your own.
What Are “Natural Consequences?”
Understanding “natural consequences” and allowing them to play out when it’s safe to do so can be a force for change over time.
How Do You Slow Things Down if it Feels Like Your House is on Fire?
Become an agent of change -- by changing yourself. How do you step back, take space, and change the dance of the usual interaction?