For many years the popular concept in the addiction treatment and recovery world was that sharing publicly about one’s recovery was at best self-indulgent and at it’s worst something that breaks the tenets of the 12-step community and only sets people up for public frailty, failure and embarrassment.
Read MoreIt is the conundrum faced by almost every parent today—how to balance the use of electronics by children and teens. As parents we often face the dilemma of kids having too much screen time with a mixture of fear, confusion and anger.
Read MoreEven though I work in the field of recovery, I have had experiences where someone who is very close to me is obviously faltering because of drinking or drugs and I engage in denial, hoping beyond hope that it’s not real, that somehow there egregious behaviors are anomaly and they will not have this dreaded disease.
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