Category : Family System

Self-Parenting to Prevent Relapse

Introduction: Early recovery is a tricky time.  Early success, feeling fragile. Going one day at a time, often...

Patricia O'Gorman, PhD
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11 Nov, 2013

Dear Children

“Sooner or later we must give up all hope of a better yesterday.” Ashley Brilliant wrote that, but I wish I...

Stephanie Abbott
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11 Nov, 2013

The Rules of Change

Life is a journey of discovery — and change is the catalyst, the energy source, that propels us toward...

Dennis Wholey
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11 Nov, 2013

Speaking Out

There has been a sea change in the way Americans believe policy makers should be addressing addiction issues.*...

Patricia Taylor
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11 Nov, 2013

To Raise Our Children, We Must...

We’ve heard the quote before: “what a man thinketh, a man does; what he does, he becomes…” When I ...

Carey Sipp
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11 Nov, 2013

The Trauma of Family Recovery

In 1989 Virginia Lewis and I began the Family Recovery Research Project at the Mental Research Institute in Palo...

Stephanie Brown, PhD
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11 Nov, 2013

Core Competencies for Co-dependents

The stories of ACOA parents struggling to do a good job of raising their children provoke thoughts of what...

Stephanie Abbott
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11 Nov, 2013

Ten Great Things About Recovering...

The sun manages to come up without your help. Therapy finally kicks in. You can stop apologizing...

Stephanie Abbott
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11 Nov, 2013

Speaking Out

There has been a sea change in the way Americans believe policy makers should be addressing addiction issues.*...

Patricia Taylor
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18 Sep, 2013

To Raise Our Children, We Must...

We’ve heard the quote before: “what a man thinketh, a man does; what he does, he becomes…” When I ...

Carey Sipp
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18 Sep, 2013

Dear Children

“Sooner or later we must give up all hope of a better yesterday.” Ashley Brilliant wrote that, but I wish I...

Stephanie Abbott
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16 Sep, 2013

Childhood Trauma and the Wheel of...

Feelings happen in the body. That’s why when we’re stressed out psychologically we experience it physically....

TIAN DAYTON, MA,...
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16 Sep, 2013

What is the ACOA Trauma Syndrome

Old pain that gets imported into new relationships is the hallmark of the ACoA trauma syndrome. The past we...

TIAN DAYTON, MA,...
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16 Sep, 2013

Research on ACOAs: What are Your...

Which characteristics do you identify with and to what extent? This is something of a self-test and a survey. If...

TIAN DAYTON, MA,...
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16 Sep, 2013

Trauma and Addiction: A Vicious...

It has long been understood in the vernacular of the addictions field that those whose “lives become...

TIAN DAYTON, MA,...
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16 Sep, 2013

What is An ACOA?

In 1980, when the term adult child of alcoholic, ACOA, was coined, ACOAs literally came out of the woodwork,...

TIAN DAYTON, MA,...
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16 Sep, 2013

Relationship Trauma Repair

Most of us would agree that living with addiction is a traumatizing experience for all concerned. But we are still...

TIAN DAYTON, MA,...
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16 Sep, 2013

The Set Up: Living With Addiction

What Happens to the Family When Addiction Becomes Part of It? Families where addiction is present are...

TIAN DAYTON, MA,...
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30 Aug, 2013

Dear Children

“Sooner or later we must give up all hope of a better yesterday.” Ashley Brilliant wrote that, but I wish I...

Stephanie Abbott
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30 Aug, 2013

Core Competencies For Co-dependents

The stories of ACOA parents struggling to do a good job of raising their children provoke thoughts of what...

Stephanie Abbott
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30 Aug, 2013

Ten Great Things About Recovering...

The sun manages to come up without your help. Therapy finally kicks in. You can stop apologizing...

Stephanie Abbott
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30 Aug, 2013
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