For Parents in Recovery: I’m Scared My Kid May Be an Addict like Me
When you have finally made the decision to get help for your alcohol and/or drug problem, there is serenity and joy to be found through the process of working your recovery program. Every day, you can feel yourself growing healthier…
My Experience with Al-Anon: A Parent’s Perspective
After growing up in an alcoholic home and then coping with my own children’s addiction issues, often tolerating the intolerable, I became so disconnected to my own feelings that I didn’t even feel how the life force was being sucked out…
Parental Guilt: My Child Is An Addict
How Could This Have Happened?
How can the parent of an addict not be weighed down by guilt? Parents who find out their children are addicted face endless self-recrimination and shame. A parent’s overarching imperative is to keep a child safe.…
Reclaiming Myself: A Mother’s Story
My Story
As an adult child of two alcoholic parents, the sister of of an addict, and as the mother of two addict kids, you could say that I'm grateful to have survived the insanity but have by no means come through unscathed. I have probably…
