by Chris | Aug 2, 2023 | Adult Children of an Alcoholic, Family, Loved One of an Addict, Spiritual Tools
Growing up as an adult child of a dysfunctional home (ACDH) can leave lasting emotional scars. One of the most challenging aspects of our journey to healing is confronting painful relationships with controlling, manipulative, and abusive family members. That is why...
by Chris | Jul 26, 2023 | Family, Loved One of an Addict, Pornography & Sexual Addiction, Sex/Pornography
My forty-sixth birthday had just passed. I looked in the mirror on my husband’s side of the room. He was in the bathroom, and his was the only mirror available. I pressed my fingertips to the sides of my cheeks. There was no denying it: my laugh lines, the parentheses...
by Chris | Jun 28, 2023 | Family, Loved One of an Addict, Pornography & Sexual Addiction, Sex/Pornography
When I had been dating my husband for about three months, I told him I was getting concerned about our relationship. I was feeling like he wasn’t listening to me as much as I was listening to him, and I was wondering if we could address this so we could work things...
by Chris | Jun 21, 2023 | Addiction, Alcohol & Drug Addiction, Getting Sober
What does the term “unmanageable” even mean? I asked Google Bard AI for a definition, and here is what it returned: “Unmanageable means difficult or impossible to control or manage. It can be used to describe a person, an animal, a situation, or an object.” Synonyms...
by Chris | Jun 14, 2023 | Compulsive Eating Behaviors
I’ve lost count of how many fellow food addicts have heard me talk about my difficult childhood as it relates to my disordered eating only to have them respond, “But I don’t have trauma like you have trauma.” Then they tell me how they were never abused in any...
