Category: Self-Help
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How to Get the Best Out of Your 12-Step Meeting!
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Attending a support group can be a very positive part of your recovery plan, as long as you understand what is healthy and what is dysfunctional. Let’s look at a few qualities of support groups and what happens when things get out of balance… Similarities vs Enmeshment When I join a support group and find…
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Recovery With a Capital R!
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Recovery is not something you just fall into because you stopped your addiction. It is imperative that you view Recovery as Active, Alive, Constantly Changing, a Verb…and something you never take for granted. Yes; there are simplistic things you can do (e.g. eat healthy, exercise, attend meetings, avoid triggers, go to work), but unless you really…
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Reinventing the Concepts of Recovery
Wouldn’t it be great if we could wave our magic wand and no one would relapse? Until we understand more about addictions (and we have work to do there), we will have to tackle relapse in other ways. Let’s look at a couple of possible breakdowns that might lead to relapse and find some ways…
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Internalize Your Recovery for Success: No Self Esteem, No Problem!
Knowing something is one thing and putting it into action is another. Recovery is an area where the action part is paramount! So how do we do this? How do we take what we learn from books, talking and screens and put it into action? Practice Saying No Personally, I believe if my clients haven’t…
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Infidelity in Your Marriage Stage IV
“Cheating on a good person is like throwing away a diamond and picking up a rock”. In Stage IV the focus will be on reinventing yourself. Now you are living your life either as a single/parent or a couple healing from the betrayal in your marriage. When you are successful in this healing process, you…
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Infidelity in Your Marriage Stage III
In my first article Stage I, we addressed the challenges of confirming the infidelity, the boundaries I recommended you set, and then the two possible scenarios which can result from those boundaries. In my second article about Stage II we discussed the first steps of the two scenarios. Scenario I is the decision to stay…
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How to Heal from a Toxic Marriage! (by: Dr. Anne Brown PhD, RNCS )
“You will never really see how toxic someone is until you breathe fresh air.” I received a request the other day from someone who had finally left a really toxic relationship and wanted to know what to do next. First of all, congratulations to anyone who has been able to leave a really toxic relationship.…
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Dating After Divorce
Whether this is your first time in the dating world or you are newly divorced and entering the dating world, there are some steps you can take to help guard against divorce. There are no guarantees and why not do everything you can to live happily ever after with that someone special? Guess what: those…
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Top Five New Year’s Resolutions To Wake Up America
It is 2016 and we are seriously off track! 1. Delete Hate Today, beginning today, please, we must all stop saying, writing, cheering, promoting, and engaging in hate. It is such a sign of fear, ignorance, insecurity, prejudice, and an outdated belief. We need different ideas, backgrounds, beliefs, and traditions in order to be better…
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Conflict Resolution: How To Approach And Stop Avoiding!
If you have been traumatized by conflict, you may avoid it at all cost. Unfortunately, that can lead to some pretty damaging behavior that puts you more at risk physically, emotionally, and financially, than the conflict itself. Let’s look at some guidelines to resolve conflict with dignity and safety so you can look…
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