9 Ways You Can Practice Self-Care
Self-care is a crucial element to being healthy. I know I struggle to find the [...]
Six Ways to Set Healthy Sleep Habits in Kids
As a parent of a teenager, I love this time of year. School starts! Teenagers [...]
Support Your Daughter (Even If You Don’t Want To)
A few years ago, I found out a truth about my parents that blew my [...]
Useful Approaches to Setting Goals In or Out of Residential Treatment
Setting Goals is often what we do to to begin a new year. The desire [...]
4 Ways Fun Can Improve Your Mental Health
“What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in [...]
Change Ain’t Easy, But It Is Possible
Many topics have been covered, and covered really well, so today I’m going to share [...]
The Kids Will be Alright
The Mindset List is a guide published annually by Beloit College that attempts to illuminate [...]
Setting Boundaries with Teens
Is there a teenager in your life who is a constant drain of energy? Someone [...]
Hope for Hurting Families: One Day at a Time
Many of the families I’ve worked with feel that they have lost everything. They are financially tapped out. Their basic assumptions about family, love, success, and life have been turned upside down. They feel betrayed and embarrassed and sad and angry. How does a family rebuild in the wake of trauma, or addiction, or mental illness, or betrayal, or loss? A little bit every day. If you can do that, you can find your way forward a step at a time. You can heal. You can hope.
PARENT TO PARENT: TIPS FOR TREATMENT
Through the process of treatment we came to understand at a very deep level that we’d made the right choice. We were saving our daughter’s life, our family’s health…and maybe even our marriage. But in retrospect, we wish we’d had other parents to talk to prior to enrolling Rachel. Parents who were a few clicks further down the road who could help normalize the process and give us some assurance that we were doing the right thing.