Growing up in the 1990s with a learning disability wasn’t something people talked about openly. Back then, kids like me were often pulled out of class for special help or given something called an Individualized Education Plan — an IEP. I didn’t understand what that...
Every Wednesday, I teach classes on addiction and mental health at a residential program in downtown San Antonio for men and women who have been recently homeless. I have the men for an hour, and then the women. A new woman came early for class. She had picked up a...
December often raises many questions for family members who have a loved one active in an addiction – or a loved one early in recovery. It can be difficult to know how to support our loved one. Below are a few simple tips. Gain an understanding. It’s helpful know...
“Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.” – Step 6 from the Al-Anon Family Groups I recently caught someone, who I love, in a lie. It hurt. Hurt wasn’t the first emotion to appear: anger was. Of course, anger does a really...
