Category: Children of Addiction/COA
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How the Let Them Theory Helps in Addiction Recovery
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins is all the rage these days, and I jumped on the bandwagon. It’s a book that would have been a great article, but it provides two solid takeaways when it comes to the field of addiction: “People only change when they feel like changing.” “People need to feel…
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Addiction Happens to All of Us
Addiction is that thing that no one cares about…until it happens to you or your loved one. But these days, nearly everyone has someone whom it’s happened to. When I first started in the field of addiction back in the late ’80s, the statistic was that a quarter of individuals were affected by a loved…
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My Friend Michael Is Dying
To be honest, I’m not even sure what he’s dying from, which makes helping him that much more difficult. It may be cancer, or it may be that his disease of addiction has finally sped up his demise…from cirrhosis or whatever else a body does when it’s had enough. And, given the fragmented systems of…
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