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How to Talk to A Child About a Parent Going into Addiction Treatment

How to Talk to A Child About a Parent Going into Addiction Treatment

Learn 7 tips for talking to children about a family member's addiction and entering treatment. It emphasizes the importance of preparation, creating a positive and supportive environment, explaining addiction in age-appropriate terms, discussing treatment, validating children's feelings, seeking additional support, and highlights the services offered by The Walker Center for mental health treatment and family therapy.

What Are Substitute Addictions & How Can You Avoid Them In Recovery?

What Are Substitute Addictions & How Can You Avoid Them In Recovery?

This article explores substitute addictions, which are behaviors adopted to replace unhealthy habits during recovery. It discusses the potential risks and negative impacts of substitute addictions while providing coping strategies to avoid relapse and promote a healthy recovery journey.

Employee Addicted to Alcohol or Drugs? Signs & Next Steps

Employee Addicted to Alcohol or Drugs? Signs & Next Steps

Managers and employers can feel helpless watching a formerly happy and valued employee become a severe blockage towards getting things done. You begin to suspect that they may have a substance addiction but are not quite sure. What happens next is highly delicate, and there are right and wrong ways to approach it. Here’s what to do.

How Experiential Therapies Help Those Recovering from Addiction

How Experiential Therapies Help Those Recovering from Addiction

Successful recovery requires a multifaceted approach that tackles the different physical, behavioral, and cognitive components of addiction. An increasingly popular method that works in conjunction with traditional talking treatments is experiential therapy.

30 Ways to Get to 30 Days - Recovery from Addiction

30 Ways to Get to 30 Days - Recovery from Addiction

In honor of #RecoveryMonth we want to give you 30 practical tips to get you to 30 days alcohol or substance-free. We would love for you to bask in the glow of your serious achievement and let it boost your confidence that you'll make it to day 60, 90, and beyond. You got this!

4 Obstacles Keeping You From Addiction Recovery

4 Obstacles Keeping You From Addiction Recovery

Oftentimes, we want to make a change but there is something holding us back. Many times, we blame those forces on something outside our control which sets us back.

We might blame our environment, our friends, or even something completely random.

For many, the last place to look is within.