Addiction is a family disease. Yes, most people not familiar with the disease assume that it is limited to those in active addiction . This podcast deals with the effects it can have on the family members and how they can deal with it.

Insight into picking up on the signs that just maybe your loved one is progressing from recreational use to problem phase or perhaps active addiction. They and you both need help! This may give insight and aid.

They Love when they're clean but they can be oh so cunning when in actine addiction. They are gonna try to work you. You most likely will fall prey to their streetwise manipulation. Not Just for their sake but for yopurs too learn and try to be firm.

Ideas on how to treat and react to your loved one. They are new to recovery and so are you. You both need to guidance in dealing with your new environment.

There is sometimes confusion between developing self-esteem and what you learn in the steps. Although they are similar and can be confused, this Podcast will try to show How one, the development of self-esteem can help to lead to a more successful journey through the steps and  toward long term sobriety. 

Hitting Bottom is often described as the time when someone that suffers from the disease of addiction has reached the point that they can not continue to exist in their world. They are going to enter into treatment and never again use. Podcast # 52 goes into the intricacies involved with this term is associated with this disease. 

An important part of staying in recovery and entering into long-term recovery is accepting you for what you are and beginning to like yourself. This is conducive to building your self esteem leading to a successful recovery. 

Very often there are walls built that hinder or cut the line of communication between those in treatment and early recovery and their loved ones. This is a time when communication may be most important. This podcast deals with the importance of Family Night Meetings in breaking down those walls and creating the necessary support for those that suffer from this disease.

There is concern among those that are new to recovery as to whether the 12-Step programs, being both based on the knowledge of the steps and a Higher power, can be beneficial for those seeking a program but are skeptical about their belief in a higher power. In podcast # 49 I try to show that the Big Book leaves open the perception of a higher power so that you can work the program as you perceive it.  

. This Podcast will offer a little insight into what to expect after you leave treatment. For you newbies coming out of your first treatment, don’t think you have arrived. You still have a ways to go. I wish you all the best. It will work if you work it.