What is it Like to Be an Adult with Childhood Trauma?
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness month, and this is a time to recognize the impact that trauma early in life can have for [...]
Understanding the Role between Addiction and Genetics
Whether or not genetics do play an impactful role in addiction is something that countless people and medical professionals alike still go back and forth [...]
Help Your Loved One Overcome an Addiction From Day One
There’s nothing harder than seeing the person you care for the most struggling with an addiction. If your boyfriend, girlfriend, spouse, partner or someone you [...]
How Can Aging Positively Affect Mental Health?
Aging brings about a lot of changes - physical, mental, emotional, familial. We must continue to care for our mental health even in our old [...]
How Interpersonal Relationships are Affected by Addiction
A common misconception about substance abuse is that it is solely the problem of the person struggling with addiction and only affects them. When this [...]
Repairing Your Marriage After Substance Abuse Treatment
When you’re in a relationship — dating, married, or otherwise — with a person who struggles with addiction, you know the strain that it puts [...]
How Adults Who Struggle with Addiction Often Behave in Relationships
Addiction is not simply a bad habit — it affects how an adult’s brain functions, leading to physical, mental, and behavioral changes. As their substance [...]
How Your Addiction Affects Those Around You
One of the most common misconceptions about drug or alcohol addiction is that the disease only affects the person using substances. On the contrary, substance [...]
How to Speak to Your Children Before You Go to Treatment
What to Say to Your Children When You Seek Addiction Treatment When you make the decision to seek help for your substance abuse issues and [...]
How Addictions Affect Your Children
Anyone who has known someone who struggles with substance abuse knows that addiction affects much more than the person using that substance. It can affect family members, [...]
