Help For Families Dealing with Addiction

Help for Families Dealing With Addiction If you are a parent dealing with the addiction of a  family member, Families of an addict looking for help with addiction, or know families dealing with an addicted loved one ….   You have come to the right Read More …

Why We Enable our Addicted Children

Addiction Knows No Bounds, and Neither Does Parental Love and Our Need to Enable and be Codependent! The parental love we have for our children truly starts before birth. It starts when we learn they are coming.  By the time of birth we know that we Read More …

Let it Go!…Let it Go! Getting Back Your Life,

Getting Back Your Life Many times as a family member of the addict, we want so badly to have a normal life as measured against societal standards we will go to extremes to fool ourselves  into thinking life is normal at all costs.  We make excuses Read More …

Interview with Author Mark lipp

An Addict Within- You Can Break My Heart But you Can’t Break My Life-Interview with Mark Lipp i am honored to have had an  interview with  Shira Goldberg of the “Addiction Show” where we discuss my new book An Addict Within.. Shira does some great work Read More …

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”― Haruki Murakam

Empowered Choices when dealing with Pain and Suffering: My last post talked about the “Crazy Eight Infinite Loop” that many of us get stuck in. Once we recognize we are in it, now  the real question is; how do we get out of it? Understand Read More …

“Fear leads to Anger, Anger leads to Hate, Hate leads to Suffering.” Yoda in Star Wars

Eliminating Anger and Suffering!   When we face Addiction in our family, or major problems in our life, we besides being sad, we are scared and fearful of what the present and future holds for our loved ones with problems. Many of us are ill-equipped Read More …

My First Selfie with my new book An Addict Within

Selfie of  Mark Lipp and an Addict Within My first run of books has  arrived!  This occasion deserves a selfie! After countless hours of writing rewriting, then rewriting some more….then countless editing corrections,  not to mention learning  to design a print book and learning the Read More …