Adolescent Addiction: Parents Greatest Fear

Adolescent Addiction: Parents Greatest Fear

Home Adolescent Addiction: Parents Greatest Fear Adolescent Addiction: One of the greatest fears that a parent can encounter is to discover their child has a dependency. Once parents have evidence of drug use or they are no longer in denial that their child is using...
Addiction Games of the Inner Child

Addiction Games of the Inner Child

Home Addiction Games of the Inner Child Addiction games are habitual patterns of behavior that feed the three hungers of the Inner Child. If you have ever spent time taking care of a child you know that they can be a handful. There are three basic things a child does...
Adolescent Addiction: Parents Greatest Fear

Addiction Denial Causes Problems

Home Addiction Denial Causes Problems Addiction denial causes problems! Father Joseph Martin, a well-known lecturer on alcoholism, said it best — “What causes a problem, is a problem.” I like that because it’s straightforward, simple, and...
Stages of Change and Recovery Wheel

Stages of Change and Recovery Wheel

Home Stages of Change and Recovery Wheel Identifying the stages of change and learning how to move through them reminds us that change is the only thing we can really count on to stay the same? Even the rate of it is steady – always speeding up! We humans...
Adolescent Addiction: Parents Greatest Fear

Relapse, Resolve, and Regrets

Home Relapse, Resolve, and Regrets Denial assists in this process we call relapse. Addiction is a very powerful and complex process that takes place in the primal part of the brain. When this process is active it will very often override the thinking brain and push...