by admin | Dec 23, 2024 | Therapy
Understanding the Risks: The Impact of Substance Abuse on Teens It’s difficult to be a teen. Teenagers are at a time in their lives when they are attempting to figure out who they are. They are bombarded by the pressure to fit in and be successful, which can be...
by admin | Dec 21, 2024 | Recovery
The Importance of Family Education in Addiction Recovery and Support Addiction and substance abuse are heavily stigmatized in our society. It’s to the point that many don’t want to talk about these topics, as if speaking of it will cause it to manifest in...
by admin | Jul 14, 2023 | Therapy
In many cases, the recovery process begins after a crisis. As parents, we go into survival mode because our primary concern is ensuring the safety of our loved ones. During the initial stages of treatment, we feel immense gratitude simply seeing them out of harm’s way...
by admin | Jun 8, 2023 | Therapy
All relationships follow a set of rules. Most often these rules are implicit, but when we engage with others, there are always expectations about what we can and can’t say or do. For example, we would never show up at our doctor’s home at 10:00p.m. to let them know we...
by admin | Jun 8, 2023 | Therapy
For some parents and family members, the early stages of the recovery process can feel like a never-ending onslaught of concepts to chew on, new information to digest, and work to be done. We may have just gotten a night’s sleep before being told that we, too, needed...