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April 21 - Covid, Addiction – and You: You’re Not Alone
February 10 - From Fantasy to Reality on Valentine’s Day: Loving Yourself with Healthy Self-Care

December 30 - New Year’s Resolutions? Try Intentions Instead!
December 10 - Addicted to Christmas Chaos? Taming the Madness this Holiday Season
November 22 - A New Way to Understand Addiction
September 20 - Loving Someone with an Addiction: A Life of Chaos
July 24 - The Law of Attraction: Help for Addiction Recovery
July 10 - “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” The Dilemma of Addiction
June 26 - The Secret to Stopping Addiction in Your Family—Forever
February 11 - From Fantasy to Reality on Valentine’s Day: Loving Yourself with Healthy Self-Care

December 28 - New Year’s Resolutions? Try Intentions Instead
December 14 - Addicted to Christmas Chaos? Taming the Madness this Holiday Season
November 8 - “A Star Is Born” and “Beautiful Boy”: Two New Films about Addiction are Released
October 10 - Providing Hope Through Choice
April 4 - How to Help the Addict You Love to Become Healthy: The Family’s Role in Addiction Recovery
February 28 - Loving an Addict: Are You Enabling or Ennobling?
February 12 - From Fantasy to Reality on Valentine’s Day: Loving Yourself with Healthy Self-Care

December 27 - New Year’s Resolutions?
Try Intentions Instead!
December 12 - How to Enjoy the Holidays When You or  Your Loved One Has an Addiction
November 24 - Virtual Counselling in Addiction Recovery:
It Works!
July 10 - 30 Years Clean & Sober: My Gratitude Speaks
May 29 - Life Begins at the End of Your Comfort Zone: Recovery from Addictive Behaviors
March 20 - Narcissism and Addiction: What We Need to Know
February 7 - From Fantasy to Reality on Valentine’s Day: Loving Yourself with Healthy Self-Care
January 2 - New Year’s Resolutions?
Try Intentions Instead!

December 29 - New Year’s Resolutions? Try Intentions Instead!
December 1 - Surviving the Holidays When Loving an Addict
October 20 - Sometimes Love Looks Like “No”: When to Set and Maintain Healthy Boundaries
September 28 - Family Addiction: Are You Affected by Another Person’s Addictive Behaviours?
August 19 - Fentanyl – What We Can Do About It
August 10 - I’ve Been Chosen as a “Best Blogger”!
July 20 - Addiction and Recovery: What Do Addicts REALLY Need?
June 19 - Marijuana IS Addictive
June 4 - Is It a Reason or an Excuse? Maintaining Your Self-Respect in the Face Of Life’s Challenges
March 26 - Saying NO to Manipulation: What Happens When We Enable an Addict?
March 12 - Are You the Loved One of an Addict? Saying NO to Manipulation
February 23 - The Truth about Bullying – And What We Can Do about It
January 26 - Addiction and Relapse: A “Normal, Expected” Part of Recovery?
January 12 - Lassana Bathily – A True Hero

December 12 - How to Enjoy the Holidays When You or Your Loved One Has an Addiction
November 6 - Violence Against Women: Can We Really Be Shocked by Jian Ghomeshi?
October 8 - Stephen Collins’ Secret is Out: How Society Enables Addiction
September 9 - Attention All Loved Ones of Addicts: Let’s Come out of the Shame Closet and Recover!
August 12 - Robin Williams, Dead at 63: Words No One Ever Wanted to Hear
July 16 - “I Know I’m Enabling But….” Recovery from Addiction in the Family
June 4 - 12-Year-Olds Stabbing 12-Year-Olds: Are We Paying Attention Yet?
May 26 - Yet Another Shooting Spree: Will This Madness EVER End?
May 13 - AA Agnostica: Alternative Steps for Recovery from Addiction
April 21 - More Violence—Over a 22-Cent Soda Tax! Whaaat???
April 16 - …And the Stabbings Continue… What’s Really Going On?
April 11 - More High School Violence: How Fed-Up Are You?
March 21 - The Portland Hotel Society: If It Looks Like a Duck and Quacks Like a Duck…
March 5 - Rob Ford and Jimmy Kimmel: A Shameful Travesty
February 24 - The Sad Story of Alex Radita: How Many More Children Have to Die at Their Parents’ Hands?
February 18 - Crack Pipe Vending Machines: The New Kids on the Block
February 12 - From Fantasy to Reality on Valentine’s Day: Loving Yourself with Healthy Self-Care
February 4 - Philip Seymour Hoffman: How Many More Do We Have to Lose?
January 24 - Justin Bieber: The Latest Casualty of ‘Enabling’

December 30 - New Year’s Resolutions? Try Intentions Instead
November 20 - Rob Ford’s Dilemma: His Denial or Our Blind Spots?
November 13 - The Secret of Self-Respect: We Teach Other People How to Treat Us
October 10 - “Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself: Surviving the Holidays” Free Tele-Class
October 2 - Sometimes Love Looks like “No”: When to Set and Maintain Healthy Boundaries
August 20 - Even More Recovery in Vancouver: Our 2nd Annual Recovery Day is Coming Soon!
July 17 - Cory Monteith’s Death: What Was He Thinking?
July 9 - About Matthew Perry
July 3 - What if… Addiction Isn’t Really a “Disease”?
June 10 - Life Begins at the End of Your Comfort Zone: Recovery from Addictive Behaviors
April 22 - Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself: The Importance of Setting Boundaries
March 18 - Addiction in the Family: Is Someone You Love Affected by Another Person’s Addiction?
February 11 - From Fantasy to Reality on Valentine’s Day: Loving Yourself with Healthy Self-Care

December 16 - Newtown, Connecticut: Let’s Stop the Insanity
December 14 - Addicted to Christmas Chaos? Taming the Madness this Holiday Season
November 16 - It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year–or is it…?
October 27 - Rape is Rape
October 24 - Groovin’—Clean & Sober—On a Sunday Afternoon: Vancouver Celebrates “Recovery Day”
September 11 - Doctors and Addiction: How Much Does YOUR Physician Really Know?
August 22 - Carole James’ Private Struggle: The Loved One of an Addict Shares Her Story
July 21 - Terror in Colorado: The Dark Knight of No-Soul
July 20 - Sir Elton: A Man of Courageous Moxie
June 18 - Prescription Addiction–in BABIES??
May 22 - What I Learned on My Spring Stay-cation
May 2 - If Nothing Ever Changed, There Would Be No Butterflies: The Power of Transformation
February 12 - Whitney Houston: Thank You for Your Help
February 7 - Attachment or Authenticity: Which Would You Choose?

December 22 - 5 Tips for Avoiding Holiday Stress and Overindulgence
September 11 - Get Out of My Pocket, Uncle Sam: US Tax Law Hits Canadians with a Sledgehammer
July 27 - Amy Winehouse: “No no no” to Rehab
July 18 - It Was 24 Years Ago Today…
June 22 - Creating Vancouver’s “Wall of Hope”
June 18 - Stickies of Gratitude
June 16 - The Morning After — Shame on WHO??
May 26 - “Ooops — Oh well!” : The Antidote to Perfectionism
April 10 - “Talks-It” or “Toxic” ~ Our Choice Point in Relationships
March 14 - Earthquake in Japan: A Personal Story
March 11 - Addiction in the Family: Or… What’s Up with Charlie??
February 21 - Handling Disappointment: Riding the Wave
January 30 - My Rx for a Happy Valentine’s Day: Become Your Own True Love

December 28 - New Year’s Resolutions? Try Intentions Instead
December 14 - I’ll Be Sane For Christmas
November 10 - Evolving Beyond the 12 Steps: The 16-Step Model looks to Empower, not Shame, on the Road to Recovery
September 27 - BC Gambling Industry Poses Problems for the Vulnerable
September 10 - The Voices in our Heads
August 27 - My Friend is Gone
August 18 - This Too Shall Pass
August 1 - Kenneth Klassen’s Pedophilia: Another Form of Sex Addiction
July 21 - Lindsay Lohan Goes to Jail