Almost every family, every organization, has them – people whose behavior impacts on individuals and can ruin relationships. Maybe there are people in your home or workplace with behaviors that upset you but who you simply don’t have the confidence to challenge, even though you would like to: I have difficulty tackling others. What if [...]
Lesson 49: The Addiction Cycle
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Addiction Is More Than Just Alcohol … Did you know that addiction is a complex problem that involves the physical, emotional and behavioral well-being and mental health of individuals and family groups?
Lesson 50: Handling Your Addiction
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Choose The Relationship And Not The Addictive Agent How to survive your addiction? We are all at risk at various times of participating in addictive types of activities.
Lesson 51: Codependency
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Are You Meeting The Needs Of Others While Neglecting Your Own? Co-dependency is when you focus all your attention and your life energy on looking after the addict or spend all your time meeting the needs of other people.
Lesson 53: Addiction Cycle/Addictive Agent
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When Choosing Addiction Consider The Negative Consequences If we look at the addiction cycle, we can see in simplified terms, what so often happens to the child who has grown up in an alcoholic family.
Lesson 54: Stay Or Go?
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With Your Choice Of Free Will Comes High Responsibility If you are in a relationship with an alcoholic; if you are in a relationship with a person who drinks way too much and seems to completely disregard what you say, completely disregard your feelings, your upset feelings, your feelings of embarrassment, your feelings of disgust, [...]
Lesson 55: The Time To Part
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It’s Not Because You Fight, It’s The Way You Fight Behavioral researcher, John Gotman (1999), did a lot of research into couples, which ones stayed together, and which ones separated. Gotman discovered that couples fighting is not a predictor that they are going to separate.
