by Jeff Packer | Mar 11, 2024 | Addictions, Change, Children & Adolescence, Crisis, Family, Friendship, Mental Health, Problem-Solving, Stress, Teens
“My brother stays home Sunday to Wednesday, and parties the remaining days of the week. Sounds like fun, right? Sometimes he’s attending multiple parties per night. He stumbles into the house. On occasions, I find him passed out in the car in our driveway. He came to...
by Jeff Packer | Mar 8, 2024 | Addictions, Affairs and Adultery, Change, Mental Health, Problem-Solving, Sexuality
Some may read the title of this blog appalled by the assumption that everyone is an addict. So let’s consider this statement from Christopher Kennedy Lawford, author of “What Addicts Know.” “As a culture we’ve become addicted not only to gambling, drugs,...
by Jeff Packer | Mar 6, 2024 | Anxiety, Change, Conflict, Crisis, Depression, Family, Grief, Mental Health, Problem-Solving, Stress, Trauma - PTS Reaction, Work & Employment
or… Post-Traumatic Stress “Reaction” (PTSR) “The anger, the rage, the hurt, and the cold loneliness that separates you from your family, friends, and society’s normal daily routine are so powerful that the option of destroying yourself is both real...
by Jeff Packer | Feb 26, 2024 | Anxiety, Family, Mental Health, Problem-Solving, Stress
“Bernice’s OCD began shortly after the death of her father. Since then, it had waxed and waned and currently, was as severe as it had ever been. Bernice was obsessed with a fear of contamination, a fear she vaguely linked to her father’s death from...
by Jeff Packer | Feb 24, 2024 | Conflict, Cooperative Parenting, Family, Love & Relationships, Marriage, Mental Health, Problem-Solving, Separation & Divorce
Keep Personal and Professional Separate? Not Always Ever consider bringing some of the skills you learn at the office home, into your marriage and family life? It is quite common to struggle with communication in our personal lives; to become quickly frustrated,...
by Jeff Packer | Feb 6, 2024 | Addictions, Change, Mental Health, Problem-Solving
Addiction Recovery: Hope May Be A Bit Blurry At First Entering an inpatient addiction recovery program can be seen as the most difficult step and a very challenging experience in the life of those struggling with addictive behaviour. The full exposure of the...
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