Learn how to set and maintain boundaries during the holidays to support your sobriety, ensuring joyful and low-pressure family gatherings.
How to Set Boundaries for a Joyful and Sober Holiday Season
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Can My Grief Be Connected to My Addiction?
While grief is a natural and often integral part of life, it can be challenging to navigate. When you're grieving, you're working through a series of losses to recreate the structure and routine essential to your day-to-day. Because of these challenges, it's no...
Want a Cheerful Sober Holiday? Make a Plan With Your Partner
When you get sober, it isn't always going to be something you share with everyone around you. In some cases, you may end up remaining with or meeting a new partner who still chooses to drink and has no interest in living a dry lifestyle. The disconnect between...
You and Me: Dry, Drinking, or Something In Between?
After spending the last two and a half years in a pandemic, most of us have created new norms for our relationships, families, and lifestyles. When the pandemic began, many people changed their drinking habits. Sometimes this was for the better and sometimes for the...
How to Talk to Your Partner About Their Drinking Habits
Alcohol is a touchy subject at the best of times, so it’s natural to feel anxious if you think your partner is drinking too much. Perhaps you’ve noticed they recently started drinking more or realized they always spend their weekends close to a bottle of wine. Habits...
Road to Recovery: How You Can Support Your Partner In Rehab
Romantic relationships aren’t easy. Combining the personalities, backgrounds, and temperaments of two people is bound to result in some kind of friction, even if it’s just the rare squabble over what to watch on TV or how to load the dishwasher. But when you add in a...
Finding Your New Normal: How to Support Your Partner in Recovery
Imagine this scene for a moment… Your partner is picking you up from treatment today. You’ve been in a 90-day residential program for alcohol dependency. You’ve been drinking daily for the last 2 years prior to treatment and surrendering to your addiction was probably...