Denial
Nov 23, 2019
Alcohol has been pervasive in Laura’s family; she even recently learned they made their money when first arriving in the U.S. by importing whiskey. But booze made Laura’s childhood complicated. Her bi-polar mother entered a major depression when Laura was born and work ensured her father’s absence. For help,...
Nov 22, 2019
Irene is a “double winner” – part of a special group of people who are members of the fellowship of both Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon. Both her parents and her brothers were daily drinkers. Her father, a police officer, was a believer in corporal punishment with her brothers. But eventually Irene’s parents...
Nov 21, 2019
Nobody drank in Dylan’s immediate family, though alcoholism had wreaked havoc in prior generations of the family. And while nobody drank, Dylan’s mother was in recovery for substance abuse. Though Dylan could swear she never actually abused drugs. His father, however, was emotionally inaccessible. All of this...
Nov 20, 2019
Ananda entered recovery via Al-Anon after wanting to end her own life. Growing up in a home with alcoholic and drug-addicted parents, Ananda believes her “hippies” parents intended to love her but really couldn’t deliver on that parental promise. They often left her alone in her crib as they smoked marijuana...
Nov 1, 2019
Greg has been married three times, to two different women. He married his first wife twice. It seemed to him that all his relationships with women would end the same way; they would leave after he put his heart and soul into trying to make their lives better. He felt the only way he could earn love was to...