Most parents remember Linda Blair as the child actress whose portrayal of Regan, a demon-possessed child, in the movie, The Exorcist. It was a stunning…

Addiction runs in my family, but not close enough for me to worry about it for our daughters. I’d heard stories about my great-grandfather and…

So I’ve been at this “parenting through addiction” stuff long enough that I really do understand that we’re in a marathon of a race here….

One of the hardest parts of parenting through addiction is imaging how “normal” everyone else’s family’s life looks – thanks to social media. I see…

In life, I’m not a particularly controlling person. I don’t tend to believe that there is only one way to do things, but somehow, with…

We finally did it. We got away for a weekend. Just the two of us. It is hard to describe how big an accomplishment that…

In our parent support group, we were taught about the concentric circles of the people in our lives who asked questions and expressed interest in…

I don’t like to visit with other passengers when I travel. Although I am quite extroverted, there is something about air travel that brings out…

Conventional wisdom is a tricky thing. We know it’s conventional because, at least at some point, it proved to be true for lots of people…

They TELL me that denial is a less pathological form of a delusion – like when the guy on the subway looks at me and…