In relationships, it’s important to know what each person’s rights, roles and duties to the relationship are. If the rules are not clear, it leads to confusion, finger pointing and misplaced blame and growing resentments that could otherwise be avoided. Excessive blaming is unpleasant and can break down critical communications, even in long-standing relationships. Sadly,…
DetailsMindfulness is a shift in the way that you pay attention but through that subtle shift your entire world can transform from the inside out. When it comes to mindfulness there is understanding it, and then there’s knowing it directly through your own experience. You might not understand mindfulness as a concept yet but I…
DetailsSymptomatic drinking describes a person drinking alcohol as a means to deal with an immediate problem in their lives. What causes people to drink excessively differs from person to person. Invariably there is some or other stressor, pain or trauma being experienced in the persons life and that pain is temporarily dulled or obscured by…
DetailsThis article is aimed at a broad INTERNET audience and is not a substitute for personal advice from a medical doctor or addiction counsellor. Disrupting chronic alcohol or drug usage without professional detoxification and emotion-management is a strenuous, risky and potentially fatal undertaking. If you are determined to attempt home detox or addiction recovery on…
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