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Red Flags That You Haven’t Emotionally Launched From Your Parents

See Any Red Flags That You Haven’t Emotionally Launched From Your Parents? Serious question, do you know the red flags that you haven’t emotionally launched from your parents? Growing up is supposed to mean independence, but for many of us, myself included, adulthood came with invisible strings still tied to my parents. Anyone relate? Maybe […]

Finding Your Voice After Toxic Parents

Finding Your Voice After Toxic Parents Is Possible And Necessary Finding your voice after toxic parents can feel nearly impossible when you’ve grown up in a household where speaking up wasn’t safe, respected, or even allowed. Toxic or dysfunctional parents—whether they were controlling, emotionally unavailable, or caught in cycles of addiction—can leave lasting imprints on […]

Help Finding Your Voice After Toxic Parents

Finding Your Voice After Toxic Parents Is Possible And Necessary Finding your voice after toxic parents can feel nearly impossible when you’ve grown up in a household where speaking up wasn’t safe, respected, or even allowed. Toxic or dysfunctional parents—whether they were controlling, emotionally unavailable, or caught in cycles of addiction—can leave lasting imprints on […]

Naltrexone: New Hope For Addiction Recovery

Naltrexone Implants Now Available in the Bahamas  Naltrexone implants are an evidence-based approach to addiction recovery. Addiction remains one of the most urgent public health challenges in North America. Despite billions spent annually on detox and rehabilitation programs, relapse rates remain alarmingly high—studies show that 40–60% of individuals relapse within the first year after treatment. […]

4 Tips For Finding Mental Health Treatment

A Guide to Choosing Mental Health Treatment  How do you know the best mental health treatment for you? Choosing can be confusing especially when you’re struggling or in the middle of a crisis.  It’s not always clear where to find mental health treatment that works for you. The choices can feel overwhelming — traditional therapy, […]

Parenting Addicts Worksheet – Help With The Tough Questions

Parenting Addicts Worksheet Tough Questions Worksheet Parenting addicts is a tough road to navigate with many ups-and-downs. In order to help gather your thoughts, we created this parenting addicts worksheet. Take a few minutes to answer these questions and center your thoughts. Parenting Addicts Worksheet 1. When Parents Don’t Agree Prompt: Write down one issue […]

Helping Versus Enabling Worksheet

Helping Versus Enabling – Do You Know The Difference? When the family situation has become dysfunctional and we have no training in healthy family dynamics, it’s easy to mistake enabling for helping. We want to do the things our loves ones ask us to. It’s hard to say not to pleading eyes and faces. But, […]

Overcoming Family: A New Radio Sanctuary for Healing Hearts

Introducing Overcoming Family I am thrilled to invite you to something we’ve been working hard on and I think will be deeply meaningful: my new radio show, Overcoming Family, co-hosted with the wonderful Leslie Glass and airing on HealthyLife.net’s Change Series. We step on-air the third Monday of every month at 2 p.m. PT, with an […]

The Silent Burnout Epidemic: Why Recovery Isn’t Just About Addiction Anymore

Is Silent Burnout Stealing Your Joy When most people hear the word recovery, they think of addiction—twelve-step meetings, rehab, and the long road back from substance abuse. But there’s another epidemic quietly spreading through homes, offices, and even our social feeds, and it’s leaving millions of people in desperate need of recovery… without a drop […]

Emotional Eating: 10 Tips To Help

Emotional Eating Is A Habit You Have To Break I’m not here to judge because I am an emotional eater and I do emotional eating to this day. However, it is manageable today. I am not a slave to my emotional eating and I have tools that help me know when to say no to […]