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Days in The Life of an Adult Child – Enough – By Sherry Hawn

Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay As a young woman I never saw myself as an addict or a broken person. I smugly believed that since I hadn’t been arrested, hospitalized, medicated or forced to undergo EST, and I didn’t take alcohol or drugs, that I had narrowly escaped what seemed to grip my entire family

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How is Your Dependence Serving You? Unlocking Your Truth – Nicola O’Hanlon

Addiction and dependence have many definitions. There are many different opinions and many heated arguments around the subject. For me there is no one clear definition for each person regarding their dependence or addiction. Humans are too complicated and their circumstances too individual to stick a generic prescription on what looks like a similar dis-ease.

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Meeting People Where They Are At – By Kyczy Hawk

A time of reflection. A time to cast the mind forward and the glance backward. A time to reset my intentions and to consider where my intentions have fallen by the wayside. How have my actions missed the mark? I am good with the practical, with the mundane, even with the technical. But relationships… they

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SECRETS

Some as precious and spectacular as rubies some as ominous and treacherous as fools gold whether dark or light each sticks to our bones and falsifies our essence. Some sparkle in fantastic splendour memories of stolen moments of joy, passion, mischief. Afraid to let them escape from our depths in case the feeling

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My Very First Meeting – By Alana Haase

I had mentioned some time ago, that I would post about my first twelve step meeting. I’ve gotten a lot of requests to tell on myself since then. My behavior is a source of hilarity to me NOW but at the time… Well, let’s just say I was a little bit nuclear bomb angry, fearful

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Nicola talks to Sherry Gaba about her new course “Breaking Free From Your Enabling Roles (podcast)

"We need to learn to stick to our boundaries and not bend" Sign up for Sherry Gabas Course HERE Sherry Gaba, LCSW is a Psychotherapist, Life Coach, and Certified Recovery Coach specializing in individual, couples, family, and group psychotherapy and maintains a private practice in Westlake Village, CA, as well as providing phone and skype appointments.

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Dawn Clancy on her new online study course for ACOAs (podcast)

"I wanted to design a course that was a one stop shop as well as having access to a supportive community. It's kind of what I wish I had when I came into recovery first." Following on from our last podcast with Dawn Clancy of Growing Up Chaotic, we disucss Dawns new first ever online

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Taking A Look At Our Familial Communication – By Jackie Stein, Family Recovery Life Coach

As we start the New Year, I’ve begun thinking of ways we can refine and develop our family communication skills. Communication is the method we use to exchange information. In the family unit, it can be between partners, between parents and children and between children. Communication can be with words but can also be with

Mental Health

When You’re The Scapegoat In A Toxic Family Of Origin – By Marty Jones

It happened again! The perpetual cycle of me allowing my mother to get close to me, then tearing me apart, me forgiving and learning to trust her again….and round and round we go. To say it’s exhausting and degrading and soul destroying is quite the understatement. And to allow myself to stay in this cycle

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Podcast with Dawn Clancy from Growing Up Chaotic

I spoke to Dawn Clancy recently, creator of Growing Up Chaotic, a community for friends and families of addicts and survivors of abuse. Dawn and I met originally when we both wrote for AfterPartyMagazine. She shares some of her story with us and gives us some great advice on how to live a functional life, despite

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Days in The Life of an Adult Child – Enough – By Sherry Hawn

How is Your Dependence Serving You? Unlocking Your Truth – Nicola O’Hanlon

Meeting People Where They Are At – By Kyczy Hawk

SECRETS

My Very First Meeting – By Alana Haase

Nicola talks to Sherry Gaba about her new course “Breaking Free From Your Enabling Roles (podcast)

Dawn Clancy on her new online study course for ACOAs (podcast)

Taking A Look At Our Familial Communication – By Jackie Stein, Family Recovery Life Coach

When You’re The Scapegoat In A Toxic Family Of Origin – By Marty Jones

Podcast with Dawn Clancy from Growing Up Chaotic