Can You See "Miracles" In Addiction?
It's a valid question... can miracles be found in addiction? Addiction is painful for everyone involved (what an understatement!). However, it is possible to find "miracles" in addiction, at least this is what I believe. Real...
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Parents: Beware of Another Misleading Infant...
Don't always believe what you read in the newspapers or what gets spread around on Facebook. Child psychologists are alarmed by recent infant sleep-training study. Original article posted by Psychologytoday.com by Darcia...
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The Importance of Fathers in the Child's Development
Why Babies Need Dads Too! Here is a refreshing article about the role of Dad's in the child's development. Even though this should be common sense, it isn't. The role of the father has been obliterated in the last several decades, and...
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How To Help Obese Children Caused by Sexual Abuse
The secrecy of sexual abuse keeps child victims alone, quiet, and self-soothing, In the case of a girl with obesity, most likely food has become her comfort. The complications that come about from trauma associated with sexual abuse...
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Choices: We are Not Destined to Repeat the Family Cycle...
I’ve always been told that alcoholism runs in families, and it is true in my family, on both sides even. I was told as a teen that I had the alcoholic genes. It made sense to me, although it did not prevent me from abusing alcohol...
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What Responsibility Do Employers Have for Employees with...
The legal responsibilities employers have toward employees with drug and alcohol abuse or addiction issues is a sticky-wicket, to say the least. When it comes to drug use and employees there are many deeper issues, concrete laws, and...
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Late-term Birth Associated with Better Long-term...
The JAMA Network Journals report suggests that late-term infants may have better health and cognitive outcomes in childhood and into adulthood. But the physical outcomes are worse for full-term infants (increase in the rate of abnormal...
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Post-Heroin: How or Why I Became a Writer
Post-Addiction and recovery: getting a job and starting a career, and living a life off the couch. "Writing has become my life’s activity, and every once in a while I realize I’m living a life I thought was...
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ADHD And Media Misrepresentation, Hype, and Debate?
Adult ADHD rare? That is what one guy at the HUFFPOST wrote in a recent article. Allen Frances recently wrote a piece in the Huffington Post Science Blog undermining the existence of ADHD. Frances' article is titled, Stoping the...
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