When you have finally made the decision to get help for your alcohol and/or drug problem, there is serenity and joy to be found through the process of working your recovery program. Every day, you can feel yourself growing healthier and stronger as you learn how to live with your disease of addiction. However,…
After growing up in an alcoholic home and then coping with my own children’s addiction issues, often tolerating the intolerable, I became so disconnected to my own feelings that I didn’t even feel how the life force was being sucked out of me. I kept smiling, kept working, and kept rescuing until I eventually realized…
I first picked up alcohol at 14 years old, after that it was off to the races. Alcohol became my higher power; it became everything. I battled with my drinking for the next 6 years. I was in and out of several rehabs, had several legal consequences, I was on life support three times, and…
How Could This Have Happened? How can the parent of an addict not be weighed down by guilt? Parents who find out their children are addicted face endless self-recrimination and shame. A parent’s overarching imperative is to keep a child safe. Parents of addicts face the stark reality that their children have traveled to a…
My Story As an adult child of two alcoholic parents, the sister of of an addict, and as the mother of two addict kids, you could say that I’m grateful to have survived the insanity but have by no means come through unscathed. I have probably been the ‘poster child’ of co-dependency and self-sacrifice with…