When someone develops a problem with alcohol or drugs, the explanation that gets offered most often is a personal failing - a lack of willpower, poor decisions, or a character flaw. But that framing misses something important. For many people, substance use begins as a...
When someone is dealing with both a mental health condition and a substance use disorder at the same time, a common approach has been to treat one before addressing the other. Get stable first, then work on the underlying issues. Get sober first, then deal...
When most people hear the phrase “trauma-informed therapy,” they picture someone working through a specific event. An accident. A loss. Something that clearly belongs in the category of trauma. But trauma-informed therapy is not a specialty track reserved for people with a formal trauma history....
If you have ever tried to stop thinking about something and found that the thought immediately got louder, you have experienced one of the more frustrating truths about how the mind works. Telling yourself not to think about something is almost guaranteed to make you...