How to Be a Better Dad in Recovery
Addiction often takes away time with your children that you wish you could get back. It can also strain the relationship you have with your children due to not being the parent you could have [...]
What Should You Do If Your Parent Enables Your Sibling’s Addiction?
It creates confusion for you when you see your sibling dealing with substance abuse and one of your parents is enabling your sibling’s addiction. Since these conversations can get very emotional, you may feel the [...]
How Do You Encourage Your Loved One to Go to Rehab?
When someone you care about is struggling with addiction, it is our instinct sometimes to nag or lecture them about the importance of getting help. Making a loved one feel terrible about themselves will not [...]
How is Loneliness in Youth Affecting Mental Health?
Youth are likely to experience higher rates of anxiety and depression during and after COVID-19 isolation. But did you know they can carry that anxiety into adult life? A new review in the Journal of [...]
How Can I Better Approach My Partner?
This pandemic has forced couples to spend more time in the house than ever before when unemployment kicks in. This can mean more fights happen because of the stress of always being in each other’s [...]
What is the Key to Keeping Dads Happy?
We tend to hear about the struggles of motherhood, like postpartum depression, but we rarely hear about the difficulties that fathers go through. Although culturally, fathers tend to be seen as the ‘working’ parent, it [...]
Why Are Kids Afraid to Talk to Their Parents About Their Mental Health?
Kids tend to think that their parents expect perfection. Telling their parents about their mental illness symptoms would mean exposing their faults. Consequently, many kids suffer in silence to avoid ‘disappointing’ their parents. This is [...]
How Do You Protect the Mental Health of an Infant?
An infant may not know how to walk or talk yet, but that does not mean that their mental health is spared. The interactions that parents have with their children can affect their emotional stability [...]
How Addiction Affects the Ones We Love
Addiction is known to cause several problems within your own life, but what you may not realize during active addiction is how it has affected the ones you love. Now that you are in recovery [...]
How Can I Focus on My Needs When My Parent Develops Alcohol Use Disorder?
When a parent develops an addiction to alcohol, shifts in mood and behaviors altered by the addictive substance can inflict unintentional trauma on each member of the family and the familial unit. If your parent [...]
