How to Develop Self-Care

Everywhere I look this month I see reminders of the upcoming holiday: bouquets of red, pink or yellow roses, heart shaped boxes of chocolate or other sweet confections, expensive greeting cards declaring love to a perfect valentine. While I’m not necessarily cynical...

How To Do Self-Care During Recovery

This blog post, written by our Program Director and Life Coach, recently appeared at www.angeladmeyer.com. When one of our loved ones is working through an addictive behavior, the focus seems to be on him and his problem. After all, he’s the one who made these...

The Problem With Settling

Most of the time, we think of being settled as a good thing – a safe emotional place. When we feel anxious, we want to settle down and relax. But the type of settling we’re talking about is different. This sad “S” word means we have chosen something we do not really...

Finding Women in the Queue

For some strange reason, my printer decided to freak out. Everything was working fine, then it wasn’t. Even after unplugging and rebooting, the printer would not print. In my frustration, I attempted to print several documents which sent them into the queue. Several...

What We Don’t Like to Think About

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). Sexual assault is not a topic any of us like to think or talk about. Some of us are uncomfortable because we don’t like unpleasant topics. Or maybe we feel embarrassed. Some of us don’t really believe sexual assault...