Happy New Year! I can’t believe we are now at the end of yet another year and they seem to come and go ever faster! At the end of the year, we should celebrate the goals and successes we have achieved not just in our Read More …
Tag: enablers
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 …
HOPE or H.O.P.E.
HOPE or H.O.P.E. – How Other People Escape
Drug Logic and Understanding It
Drug logic and how we can understand it: The drug logic of an addict and how to understand it
How the book “An Addict Within”, occurred.
Discusses how the book “An Addict Within”: came about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq7AI2hHmuEn