I was in Destin with two of my best friends for the last week. It’s always incredible to be in their presence and being with them on a beautiful white sand beach with crystal clear turquoise water is a bonus. I drove home from Destin yesterday feeling restored by our time together. After about 2 days with […]
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As parents of children struggling with substances, we’re used to identifying feelings of fear, anger, sadness, and guilt, but we don’t always identify the grief we feel. Probably because grief is usually associated with death, but there are many types of loss that cause grief. Ambiguous loss is when the person you’re grieving is physically
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I was a guest on the Alcohol Tipping Point podcast with Deb Masner, RN, a podcast for anyone sober or sober curious. The Alcohol Tipping point podcast offers tips, tools, and thoughts to change your drinking and change your life. In this episode we talk about: Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-help-a-loved-one-with-addiction-featuring/id1553157460?i=1000605304602 Listen on Spotify:
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We discuss the importance of self-care in the grieving process. We focus on my grief from the loss of my daughter Helanna, but grieving is important for all losses. Grief is how you move through the painful gap between expectations and reality. Life is filled with all kinds of painful gaps. We need to acknowledge and grieve them in order to release resistance and move toward acceptance.
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I contributed #5 to a Rent.com article. These are all great ideas about what to do with 15 minutes of free time. None of us knew what else was being contributed to the article so I love that the theme turned out to be slow down, meditate, and journal. 15 minutes doesn’t seem like a
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The Safe Home Podcast is for struggling teens and their families finding their healing path with addiction. 17yo Joey and his moms Beth and Jan share from the heart their experiences and struggles with addiction and mental health. I got the opportunity to coach Beth and Jan last year and watch them work hard on
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Welcome to this week’s episode of the StephUp Podcast! Thank you for your support and for coming back each week to listen. This episode features special guest Heather Ross of Heather Ross Coaching. Steph and Heather begin their conversation by talking about Heather’s background. She is a life coach who mainly works with parents who
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It’s not the things we do once that matter. It’s the things we do over and over that matter. I’m so grateful that I put my own oxygen mask on first over and over day after day because in times of crisis, I default to those habits. I don’t have to rely on figuring out
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