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The Complex Relationship Between Trauma and Addiction
It's tough to overestimate the overlap between trauma and substance abuse. I've seen innumerable instances of people in active addiction and in recovery who have suffered trauma. It can be a very complex, cyclical relationship: someone uses alcohol or other drugs to...
Family Systems Therapy & Recovery
If you think about it for a minute, it’s probably easy to see that family is so important as an influence on drug and/or alcohol misuse and recovery. The impact can be positive or negative, healthy or harmful. There may be nothing more powerful than family in...
Support Groups for Families and Loved Ones
At Recovery Navigators we believe that a critical part of family recovery is fellowship with and support from people with similar problems. Few experiences in recovery are as valuable as hearing from someone else a story that sounds like yours.There are many excellent...
How Do I Help If They Don’t Want Sobriety?
The better question might be, “Who do I help if they don’t want sobriety?” In the last post we discussed someone who was ready and willing to get sober. What if the person I care about isn’t ready yet? Here’s the blunt truth: You can’t make them stop and neither can...
How Do We Start?
Most often, the question comes from family. Sometimes it’s from friends or from a boss. But it’s essentially the same: Someone we care about has a problem with drugs and/or alcohol. How can we get help? How do we start? The question is a little more complicated than...
Welcome to Recovery Navigators
I started Recovery Navigators because I remember the confusion, the feeling of being overwhelmed, fear, and anxiety – all mixed with great hope – when I surrendered and decided to stop my substance abuse. I had reached the point at which the pain of continuing...