The Help That Makes It Worse Most families don’t think they’re enabling addiction. They think they’re helping. They think they’re being loving. They think they’re protecting someone who is struggling. They think they’re doing what…
The worst time to improvise When a family hits a crisis point with addiction, the house becomes a pressure cooker. Someone has overdosed or nearly overdosed, someone has disappeared for a night or three, someone…
The Myth That Leaving Solves Everything Society loves a clean ending. People want to believe that once a victim leaves an abusive relationship, the danger evaporates and life immediately becomes lighter, calmer, and simpler. They…