Adulting: What Is My Loved One Capable Of?
Foster awareness and connection. Do mini experiments; let them succeed or fail, and don’t be critical or have huge expectations.
Category: MODULE 7 – positive thinking
FAMILIES SPEAK: Favorite Tools from CRAFT, Pt. 2
In part 2, Isabel, Kayla, and co-hosts discuss favorite tools and tips from working with the CRAFT method.
FAMILIES Speak: Favorite Tools from CRAFT, Pt. 1
Isabel, Kayla, and co-hosts discuss their favorite tools and tips they've used from the CRAFT method.
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.
You Don’t Have to Be Perfect
Embrace "beginner's mind"; make mistakes and learn; practice until the tools become automatic. Remember that change happens incrementally.
Will His Vaping Lead Him Right Back To Use?
It can be hard—perhaps even impossible—not to worry when a Loved One who struggles with SUD exhibits changes in behavior. Even when many of those …
How Do You Stop Catastrophizing?
If you find yourself swept away in the undertow of negative thinking about what might happen and how you might prevent it, the number-one tool to use …
